the little mermaid melody's journey

My husband's first love had been trapped in a car for an hour. After they pulled her out, his rage shifted onto me. “It’s your fault she got hurt,” he spat, his eyes blazing as he grabbed me. Before I could make sense of what was happening, he forced me into a wooden box, slamming the lid down with a deafening crack. “You’re going to feel every ounce of the pain she went through,” he hissed, nailing it shut. I pounded on the walls, my screams tearing through the air. “Please, I didn’t do anything! Let me out!” My throat burned with the effort, my fists aching, but nothing stopped him. “Stay in there until you’ve figured out how to act like a decent human being,” he said, his voice cold, dripping with contempt. Hours passed. My body twisted unnaturally in the tight space, bones throbbing as blood smeared the wood beneath me. I whispered into the dark, the pain unbearable. "Please… just let me out…" But he didn’t care. A week later, he returned, his laughter echoing with hers as they entered the house, carefree from their trip. He finally opened the box. But by then, I was already gone. The woman he locked away was no longer breathing, no longer pleading. Just a cold, silent corpse.

“Do you, Alex Snow, take Jennifer Walker, to be your lawfully wedded wife?” My soon to be husband looks at me with the eyes of a beast, ready to rip me apart at any second as he says tightly “I do” Although he just vowed to take me as his wife, to love and cherish, his ‘I do’ vowed something else entirely. It was an oath to make me suffer horribly at his hands. As soon as the words “I do” left my own mouth I was certain, I just sealed my own fate by marrying Alex Snow. In a small town called “Snow” known in all of Alaska for its huge illegal smuggling business on the border of America and Canada, Alex Snow; the new leader of the Snow clan that controls and dominates the smuggling territory, forces Jennifer Walker into marrying him against her will. After his father gets murdered by Jenny’s father, Patrick Walker, the Snow clan vows to take their revenge on the whole Walker bloodline. But killing the responsible man, sends both families into a blood feud as both clans vow to make the other one pay. The only way to stop that bloodbath from turning into a massacre, and claiming more innocent lives was a peace offering in the form of marriage from both families. Jennifer’s world turns upside down as she turns out to be the one Alex Snow asked to marry specifically in order to stop that war. Her only thought at that moment was “He is going to make my life a living hell” *The town Snow and everything it represents is real inside the world I created in this book. It’s as real as you believe it to be, but It doesn’t exist in real life*

Zata Nandari, gadis perkotaan yang hidup dalam kebebasan tanpa batas, tiba-tiba terjebak dalam dunia film animasi 'The King's Forbidden Love'. Terlempar ke dalam peran Alenda Laqueen Celsion, anak haram seorang Duke, Zata harus berhadapan dengan takdirnya sebagai calon pasangan raja Kerajaan Disappear. Namun, raja tersebut yang selalu menyembunyikan wajahnya di balik topeng, bukanlah sosok biasa. Antara kabur atau menggoda raja yang misterius itu, Zata harus membuat pilihan sulit, terutama ketika setiap sentuhan membuat raja semakin tergoda. Akankah Zata mengungkap misteri di balik topeng sang raja, atau akan terjebak dalam pesonanya yang memikat?

Britania Raya menyimpan banyak sekali rahasia yang belum terungkap dalam sejarah pembentukannya. Salah satunya adalah Northern Union Loot, harta jarahan pasca konflik sebelum negara Skotlandia terbentuk berabad-abad yang lalu. Hingga detik ini, belum terungkap lokasi pasti tersembunyinya harta jarahan itu. Hingga akhirnya The Council for British Archeology (CBA) memutuskan untuk menutup pencarian, juga dengan alasan yang belum terungkap. Eleanor Aetherelt, atau kerap disapa Elly merupakan seorang wartawan lepas yang bertugas untuk mengirim tulisan-tulisan jurnalistik pada kantor berita kenamaan. Meski memiliki keterbatasaan sebagai seorang Tunanetra, Elly tetap profesional menjalankan tugasnya, melakukan yang terbaik agar semua mata memandangnya setara. Pada satu waktu, salah satu tulisan Elly mengundang kontroversi, setelah menyebut nama perusahaan besar di Inggris, Thorn Enterprise. Mengetahui hal ini, Sir Edric Arathorn selaku CEO perusahaan sekaligus orang terkaya di Inggris mengantarkan Elly menuju kediamannya. Dalam perbincangan bersama Sir Edric, Elly ditunjuk sebagai orang yang harus melanjutkan pencarian Northern Union Loot, sebagai bentuk pertanggungjawaban akan tulisan Elly yang memberikan dampak pada perusahaan Thorn Enterprise. Waktu-waktu pencarian tidaklah mudah bagi Elly, tak jarang setiap langkahnya terguncang, mulai dari terbatasnya data CBA hingga halangan kelompok Silvie, yang juga mengejar Northern Union Loot berlandaskan dendam. Northern Union Loot bukan sekedar pencarian, melainkan ujian, untuk Elly beserta segala keterbatasannya.

Saat SMA 1 Jakarta sedang mengadakan 'Wall of Fame', Miss. Popular, Jasmine Annisya tentu saja ingin mendapat foto di tempat wall of fame. Tapi semua tidak berjalan lancar seperti rencana. Gray Nicklaus, Mister. Popular yang tidak diketahui keberadaannya oleh Jasmine menghancurkan sesi foto Jasmine. Tentu saja Jasmine langsung menuduh cowok tersebut sebagai penghancur. Tapi yang tidak diketahui olehnya adalah kalau dia akan membuat kesepakatan bersamanya. Kesepakatan yang menyeleneh, tapi membuat mereka menjadi dekat. Bahkan, kedekatan mereka ditakuti oleh saudara kembar Gray. Tapi itu bukan penghalang bagi Gray untuk terus mengikuti kesepakatan bodoh yang ditawarkan oleh Jasmine. Hubungan mereka terlalu larut dalam sosial media, sampai mereka lupa, bahwa yang mereka rasakan adalah hal nyata. Dan saat mereka sadar, itu semua sudah terlambat.

At my mother's funeral, my fiancé, Matt Moore, arrived with Kayla Wood to pay his respects. In front of everyone, he announced that our engagement was over. He was going to marry Kayla instead. As the whispers and laughter of the crowd swirled around me, Zach Hayden, my childhood friend, suddenly knelt on one knee and proposed. He said he had loved me for many years. Moved by Zach's sincerity, I accepted his proposal. For three years after our marriage, I remained childless. Each time the topic came up, Zach would reassure me gently that it didn't matter. As long as he had me, that was enough. But not long after, I overheard a conversation between him and the family doctor. "Mr. Hayden, I've prepared the contraceptives as you instructed. Should I continue giving them to your wife?" His voice was cold and detached. "Yes. Don't stop. Marrying her was nothing more than a convenient arrangement. In my heart, only Kayla is worthy of being the mother of my child." So, this marriage I thought was filled with happiness was nothing more than a carefully crafted lie. Since he never loved me, I no longer wanted him either.

Luciana Judith Bastian, hanyalah gadis manusia biasa yang hidup berpindah-pindah dikarenakan pekerjaan walinya. Bagi luci, ini bukalah hal yang baru yang harus dia keluhkan. Dia hanya ingin hidup seperti gadis remaja pada umumnya yang bisa hidup bebas dan mencintai seseorang. Sayangnya semua itu tak mungkin karena perjanjian yang mengikatnya. Sampai pertemuannya dengan seorang pemuda dari keluarga Alvaro merubah segalanya. Adrian Alvaro Kael, putra tertua dari sang pemimpin pack yang juga merupakah serigala putih satu-satunya yang mendapatkan anugrah dari dewa. Adrian adalah serigala yang diasingkan dari pack karena kutukan yang dia terima sejak bayi. Kutukan yang merenggut semua yang dia miliki hingga membuatnya hidup bagai dineraka. Hingga, pertemuannya dengan seorang gadis bernama Luci yang juga merupakan teman dari adik tirinya memberinya sedikit harapan untuk terus hidup. Sayangnya kutukan itu terus menghantui menghantui keduanya hingga salah satu diantara mereka mati. Misteri apa yang ada dibalik ini semua? Akankah mereka menyatu? Atau ini hanya permainan takdir yang menyerenya pada penantian tak berujung lainnya?

Beneath the Mafia’s Veil adalah sebuah cerita misteri dengan nuansa gelap dan penuh teka-teki di kota Ravenwood. Kisah dimulai dengan Detektif Leon Ardian yang menyelidiki serangkaian pembunuhan dengan pola aneh, di mana korban selalu ditemukan dengan bunga camellia putih di sisinya. Bersama dengan ahli forensik Evelyn Selene, Leon mulai menyusun potongan-potongan teka-teki yang membawanya pada jaringan kriminal yang lebih besar. Penyelidikan mereka berkembang dari pembunuhan sederhana menjadi pengungkapan operasi rahasia berskala internasional yang melibatkan mafia, senjata biologis, dan konspirasi politik. Cerita ini menggambarkan perjuangan Leon dan Evelyn melawan waktu untuk menghentikan Damian Crowe dan bos kriminal di baliknya. Sepanjang perjalanan, mereka menghadapi ancaman mematikan, teka-teki simbolis, dan keputusan sulit yang menguji moral serta kepercayaan mereka satu sama lain.

This story will be like be dark romance, an erotic romance, so there will be sex. Nicolette Gray is a 25-year-old young woman who will start working at Manson Construction Co, the company that makes her dream. She wants to just enjoy her life and even not to believe in love. She believes in one sentence; if a man wants to satisfy her, he must cook well and be good at bed. Carter Darren is a young man who is more than lusted today; he is beautiful, rich, and above all, young for the empire he manages. He is only 28 years old, and he is already a billionaire. Carter Darren and Nicolette Gray; The two should not be together, and yet their attraction and desire to each other will be stronger than their reasons.

In the small town of Eastwood, the mysterious disappearance of 12-year-old Daniel from his abusive family had left a void that no one could fill. Over a decade later, Daniel, now a suave, enigmatic billionaire arms dealer, returns to Eastwood with two purposes in mind: to reconcile with his past, particularly with his beloved younger sister, and to wage a secret war against the dangerous underbelly of the town. His first encounter in town is with Kate, a beautiful waitress with a challenging life of her own. They're immediately drawn to each other, sharing a connection that neither can explain. But with this connection come complications: Kate is tied to a world Daniel is fighting against, with a looming arranged marriage to a millionaire who has dark secrets. As Daniel delves deeper into the town's affairs, he uncovers a network of narcotics trade, child traffickers, and corrupt officials. All the while, he keeps his true identity hidden, trying to get closer to his family without revealing himself. Kate becomes both his anchor and his weakness. Her association with the town's malevolent forces, especially her fiancé, threatens to tear them apart. However, as they grow closer, their combined strength becomes a force to reckon with. Throughout their journey, they'll face intense challenges, both from external enemies and internal demons. The town of Eastwood will witness a storm of love, action, betrayal, and redemption. But the question remains: can love truly conquer all, even the shadows of a tortured past?