The Architecture Of Love

This book gathers different love stories, yes, love stories. All these stories that I collected over time, that were told to me by friends, acquaintances, relatives and others from my own imagination ink. And perhaps, there is some coincidence.

Key terpaksa menandatangani kontrak menikah di tempat kerjanya. Ia sungguh disuguhi kejutan di hari pertama ia kerja di salah-satu perusahaan saham terbesar di Negeri Paman Sam itu. Kontrak menikah yang terpaksa ia buat dengan Aldo—Bujangan panas—yang sudah menjomblo selama 27 tahun. Ia harus—karena ayahnya yang sudah sakit-sakitan meminta Key untuk segera menikah. Dan konyol nya, Key malah meminta bantuan ‘Aldo’.Atasannya di kantor itu, sekaligus mantan sahabatnya dulu. Sebenarnya, alasan utama ia meminta bantuan Aldo adalah, karena Key tidak punya teman lelaki. Dan kebetulan saat ayah Key meminta ia mencari calon suami, Aldo juga berada di ruangan yang sama dengannya. Alhasil, dengan tidak waras nya, Key pun meminta lelaki gila itu untuk berpura-pura menjadi pacarnya dan calon suaminya. Namun bagi Aldo, perjanjian itu hanya lah sebatas putih di atas hitam dulunya.Saat Key memohon padanya, saat ia sudah menghapus memori nya dulu,saat ia berusaha untuk melupakan gadis itu.Namun apa jadinya jika Aldo benar-benar ingin membuat kontrak itu bukan lah sebatas kontrak? Karena ide kontrak menikah itu adalah atas dasar pemikiran gila nya sendiri saat ayah Key memintanya untuk menjaga putri semata wayang nya. karena Key itu adalah mantan istrinya yang melupakannya karena kecelakaan yang ia buat sendiri. Kecelakaan tragis yang membuat Key-Nya hilang ingatan dan tangan Aldo sendiri yang membunuh calon bayi mereka.

Olivia Conner was only sixteen when she was diagnosed with amnesia, it's been three years and she still doesn't remember half of her life but she's more than okay with that. She doesn't let that dark stormy night define her life, but when she meets a mysterious yet attractive tattooed guy who knows more than he's letting on, she finds herself being dragged back to the past.

Victoria Larei Fraser went to jail for murdering her brother. At the age of 27, she was released on parole and Victoria wants nothing more than to move on and live her life in peace. However, the peace she wants is nowhere to be found as the London Don had been searching for her.

Mike, a student at a university fell in love with Gabrielle, a newly admitted student. Mike had Jane who sponsored his education and expected his love in return. There was Brian, a poor uneducated badboy who saved Gabrielle from bullies and later fell in love with her. He could not open up to her because he felt he was not good enough to be her lover. Mike found out Brian was in love with his girlfriend so he set him up. Brian shamefully left the city. He returned on the eve of their wedding, stole the bride's heart and left without a trace. Gabrielle abandoned her fiance on her wedding day and went in search of Brian. Do you think she will ever find him?

He approaches, stalking me, I take several cautionary steps back, in shock. "What are you? "I whisper, my throat threatening to close in panic. "I said I would answer your questions but I don’t think you’re ready to know what I would answer to that one." Yolie Bruzain was hit by a car three years ago. She has always suspected supernatural forces were involved in her miraculous recovery. When an enigmatic Greek billionaire kidnaps and forcibly keeps her in his Villa, she realizes her suspicions are totally justified. Cause nothing is what it seems... Not even she, is who she thinks.

Scarlett Moore is an ordinary junior at Seayes Town High School, where her best friend Brooklyn Davis shines as the star. In the hallway, Scarlett faces her nemesis, Brooklyn's boyfriend—or perhaps ex-boyfriend—Skyler Thompson. Known as the famous quarterback who dates only blonde cheerleaders, Skyler enjoys calling Scarlett "Red," aiming to rile her up. However, as Brooklyn's infidelity comes to light, Scarlett finds herself and Skyler entangled in an awkward web of emotions and discoveries.

Waking up to a sudden change in your life, how do you think you'd cope? Same goes for Jasmine Kane whose life changed overnight because of a simple Marble. Problem arises when the owner of the Marble comes to find her and she falls in love with him and puts herself in more danger. Now she has to choose between saving her own life and Dying to save the one she loves....is their love really the one to die for? Will it be a Tragic Ending or A Happy Ending?

Pierre Paul Abutu gives a humorous, fascinating and dispassionate narration of the unique intimate and romantic events of his life from teenage to adolescence, and into the early stages of his adult life. This narration revolves around the lives, and relationships of sixteen ladies with whom he shared happy, intimate, eventful and evergreen moments of his life with. These love affairs occur in Pierre Abutu’s life, at his university, the Augustine Nnamani Campus, Agbani, in Enugu Campus of the Nigerian Law School, Akwa Ibom State and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Due to his religious beliefs, personal convictions, personal principles, metaphysical and supernatural predictions and postulations, the media, intellectual and literary effects in his life, most of these affairs either ended abruptly or amicably. These love affairs also reveal the negative attitudes, traits and deceptive machinations of these girls and ladies. Even though certain unpleasant and resultant effects were never intended at any particular stage, or with any of these girls and ladies, one thing was very clear: each love affair was and would always be evergreen to Pierre Abutu.

Tatlong magkakaibigan na ninais lamang ay magmahal at mahalin. Silang tatlo ay may kanya - kanyang mga nobyo pero dahil sa tukso at biro ng kapalaran, mahuhulog ang kanilang mga puso sa di inaasahang tao na siyang nobyo ng kaibigan. Mapapanindigan kaya nila at maipaglalaban o tuluyan nalang sekreto ang nabuong pagmamahalan?