Nathaniel Adikusuma secara sembunyi- sembunyi menjalin hubungan dengan sesama pria sejak dirinya menempuh pendidikan di new york. Khawatir akan penolakan dari orang- orang terdekatnya ia pun menutupi jati dirinya tersebut.
Sekembaliannya ke kampung halaman Nathan langsung dihadapkan dengan kedinginan keluarga yang memang sejak dulu dirasakannya. Hingga ia harus bertemu Maxime Nandara, sosok yang dikenalnya secara terpaksa hanya karena kesamaannya sebagai calon pewaris tahta.
Nathan yang diharuskan orangtuanya untuk selalu bersikap ramah pun akhirnya tak dapat membendung kekesalannya pada Max yang mulai ikut campur dalam permasalah keluarga dan percintaannya.
Semua bertambah rumit saat hubungan persahabatan dan cintanya yang saling membentur satu sama lain.
Max yang seperti tak gentar untuk mendekatinya pun membuat hatinya sedikit goyah.
Akankah Nathan akan tetap setia dengan Rian Fahreza, kekasihnya sejak awal itu?
Ataukah pesona Max yang begitu dominant hingga malah bisa membuatnya berpaling?
Ataukah Nathan lebih memilih menjadi anak baik dengan menikahi seorang gadis?!
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297 Chs
The Secrets They Hold
[WARNING : MATURE CONTENT]
Every each person holds a dark and deep secret in their hands. And hers is a crime.
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Veda Ambrose, a supermodel who has gained both fame and wealth. She is a dream that every man desires and every woman craves to be. But who would have thought a perfect woman like her has been veiling the bitter secret in her palm the whole time?
She messed with the wrong person in the past. Veda Ambrose committed a murder. A crime which she could never run away from forever. She even changed her name, moved her house and switched her car, just to hide from that perilous man, Edward Gable.
Unintentionally, she killed his lover. It was not purposely. It was a mistake. But what she had done could not be changed. So she got an option to run away from him only. Still, he managed to discover her always. Not to mention the fact that Edward Gable is one of the crime lords.
Now he has appeared in front of her after five years. He has come to make her repay for the crime she has wronged. However, Veda Ambrose refuses the fate and asks for help from another man instead. The man who can rescue her only in this tough situation, Lucius Ford.
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220 Chs
To have or to hold (The Mysterious Love Collection)
"Becca's life was smooth sailing - up until her wedding day.
Jilting her cheating fiancé at the altar and escaping on her honeymoon on her own, it seems like a great idea to piece her life together and start from scratch.
But when one door closes, another one opens - all in the form of Jace Morgan. He's handsome, rich, sexy, and charming; but he's a world full of secrets that leaves Becca powerless to his whims.
Meeting Jace may have been the best and worst thing that has ever happened to her, and the journey of the unknown and discovering his past results in more than one danger emerging.
Being drawn firmly into his grasp, Becca's independence is chipped away at, piece by piece, and the only way out is to unearth the skeletons of the past and lay them to rest.
The truth is the only thing that can set her free, but with her heart belonging to Jace, how far can she run?
Broken hearts and minds are at odds, in this decadent romantic suspense series."
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150 Chs
Twice the Hands to Hold
Twin brothers Brian and Matt Walker went to live with their mother’s brother after the death of their parents at an early age. Brian is still wracked with the guilt he carries around from a young age and sees the world through a distorted lens of self-loathing. When he meets a sexy and interested college-aged guy at the beginning of his senior year of high school, he may have finally found someone who can help him escape his mundane existence.<br><br>Matt has his life all planned out -- he longs for a solid career in journalism after graduating college. But his tenuous hold on family life threatens his dreams of independence, as does the attentions of a closeted new transfer to their school.<br><br>Can Matt pull away enough from his family to come into his own? And will Brian finally get to grips with his past and allow his twin to chase his own happiness?
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107 Chs
To Love & To Hold
"Shhhh," he cut me off, his palms spreading on the revealed skin of my abdomen. His index fingers made their way into the waistband of my sweatpants as he pressed his front closer to my behind.
"Don't shush m-" I tried to argue.
"I said so," he stated, his tone going deeper as his hand went lower, this time to the waistband of my panties. I couldn't control my breathing anymore, more so as his teeth lightly grazed my neck. "So you better obey."
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They say "A night in Vegas can change your life."
Rachel didn't think this saying would apply to her. Well that was until she opened the door of her hotel room after a crazy night out.
As a marriage certificate is shoved in her face, she notices a glistening diamond on her ring finger.
The piece of paper turns out to be legit as stated by the lawyer who presented it. What's more shocking is that her said husband is Lorenzo Caden Peters, one of the best actors in the world and soon to be CEO of the biggest textile company around the globe.
How would their life turn out?
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85 Chs
Entrainment: Among the Cloud Dwellers and the Bridge Across Times
Giuliana was born in Siena, Italy. At the age of 4 her father gave her a box of markers. She immediately began to doodle stories on the house walls. After a few weeks of repainting they finally gave her paper as well. She has not stopped writing since. She calls home Whidbey Island where she settled in 2001, after globetrotting and teaching Italian in exotic places as far as Japan.
She holds a Classic Italian Literature and Philosophy degree with a minor in English still laced with a Chianti-infused accent. She speaks fluent Spanish, has forgotten most of her French and holds tightly to her Japanese, mostly by eating sushi every chance she gets. She shares a yellow cottage on the island with her husband, 2 children and 2 cats, a vegetable garden and a fig tree named Federico. Every residual free minute of her life is spent working on Book Three.
www.giulianasica.com
In this compelling and hauntingly vivid novel, Porzia Amard, an epicurean globetrotter, has left her French-Italian roots and her beloved wine-making family behind in Tuscany to pursue her journalistic studies in the USA, eventually settling in Florida; Pensacola, to be exact, where hurricanes abound.
And it is on the forceful tail end of one such hurricane that her life suddenly takes a mystical turn and the story begins.
When she unexpectedly inherits the legacy of unusual powers at her beloved grandmother’s deathbed, she embarks on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery. From the winding hills of Tuscany to the perilous landscape of South Australia and salt-scented beaches of western Florida, Porzia abandons the straightforward path after a past life regression introduces a distant soul mate, revealing a love so intense it has resisted the tarnishing of time.
Porzia loves food, but would rather eat than cook. Her minimalistic choices of friends give us an insight on her aberration for large crowds while her selective palate, often used in her mouthwatering culinary and gem-wine-searching escapades tell us she won’t compromise. Stubborn, beautiful yet goofy she doesn’t believe herself capable of accepting the legacy of powers her paternal grandmother has bestowed upon her. Her colorful, yet genuinely blunt comments give us vivid description of her morals, ethics, dreams and hopes and make her irresistible to the eyes of one special man.
Narrated in vibrant prose, infused with mouthwatering aromas of delicious recipes paired with inebriating wines Porzia’s life intertwines with mystical characters. She finds herself embroiled in a world of esoteric secrets and swept in a heated passion with famed off-road racer Gabe Miller.
This unique and extraordinary novel is an irresistible recipe for lovers of romance, wine, and the mystical realm. This book promises freedom from earthly boundaries; it blurs the lines between safety and the unconventional; between love and fear, between us and the gods.
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73 Chs
Death Inspector Protocol [STOP/ON HOLD]
Another set of collections of romantic action between women with a twist of dark fantasy from inspiring myths or legends that who would have thought it could play like these.
In another kind of Netherlands where realms of all creatures human or non-human coexist in one peaceful universe, a fall of disaster threatened the peace which forced each race to put up their bars. Worse case of it, it caused the division of the whole kingdom into three; Ciel Nocturne for the vampires, Singarti for werewolves, and SunItuski for the witches or anything in between. Those three powerful races of the night creatures went to wars and bloodbaths between their kinds and other races for whatever reason they might not come to terms with; causing foul creatures that could be compared to an epidemic called Fallen Rogues.
It took many generations to live in the dark ages when myths and legends started to be born. Yet, before the new era began to expand, a trigger has to be pulled and each chosen and rightful trigger began to step up and attempt to restore the peace again. They called themselves DIP or the Death Inspector Protocol. They were the kind of group that’ll secure the safety of everyone. From the safety of innocent creatures; to keep an eye on any potential threats to their peace; to dealing with all unexplainable deaths that occur around their place.
As they pulled the trigger the new era kept on expanding and moving forward, and the myths and legends turned into a story or books that were being stocked in historical museums, libraries, or old tales of old people. The DIP started by recruiting humans or non-humans to work together in one underground organization to maintain the balance and peace of all creatures. Their ground was only known by the head of the government chief of police from each creature.
And here’s the story of how the myths and legends took part in the changes in each realm as the DIP or the Death Inspector Protocol came into the picture and play their part.
Edited Version. Read and stay tune ^^.
REMINDERS: Be reminded that this book came from the figment of my imagination. So, if you encountered familiar or similar names, places, or other structural description forms, they were only coincidence or maybe used as an ideal or inspiration to come up with such creative ideas that made me write these kinds of mixed-up or twisted stories.
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[Author's Note: Something was off over this collection and it will take time to edit this one. I need to feel them so I could write them freely. My writer's block over this is totally severe & real hahaha XD In the meantime read my THE SCENTS ^^]
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62 Chs
Just Hold Onto Destiny's Grasp
Damien Cadenza is a Landscape Photographer while, Caelian Joy Pangilinan is a Tragic Author.
Two people who have the same passion to achieve their dreams. Two people who mourns to their painful past.
When love arrives, when problem strikes, and when hurt is at the corner.
Can they take the chance to hold onto destiny's grasp?
(All rights reserved by Shay C.)
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60 Chs
I'll Hold On To You
"Here in my heart lies a sacred promise. You and I will be together for this is our destiny. No matter what may come between us after this, we'll love each other till beyond eternity. It's not just a promise, it will be my eternal pledge to you..."
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A love story that started with the innocent falling of the gloxinia flower and had made two completely different people's paths cross for the first time.
A charming guy who was leading a carefree life...
A headstrong girl who was carrying a broken heart...
Two people who had a rough start and yet they found comfort from each other when they least expected it.
As they spend time together, they began discovering a deeper part of each other... even the truths that each of them had hidden from the rest of the world.
They gave each other more reasons to show their true smiles as they gave each other more reasons to dream, as well.
Before they knew it, the time came for them to finally realize that they needed each other much more than they could ever think of, regardless of the pain that they knew the feeling could bring to them.
But how far are they willing to go to fight for the love they deemed true if the time comes that everything between the two of them ended up disappearing in an instant?
Who will remain holding on to the promise of love that they hoped was something that would last till beyond eternity?
This is their unforgettable journey in hopes of finding the love they're looking for...
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54 Chs
Megalopolis (on hold- indefinitely)
Megalopolis, a city that has surpassed the limits of its time, becoming a thriving metropolis populated by elves, dwarves, humans and other sentient races.
The story follows Finn, a young human slave from the slums abandoned by his captors, as he explores the city he lives in, uncovers dark secrets hidden beneath the surface, and learns how to survive in a world filled with magic and violence.
I'm not sure which specific new fantasy novel by Garth Nix you're referring to. However, generally, his novels are known for their rich world - building, complex characters, and engaging storylines. His works often blend elements of magic, adventure, and a touch of the macabre. For example, in his 'Abhorsen' series, he creates a world full of necromancy and powerful magic users who have to fight against the forces of death.
Another is 'Shade's Children'. This novel is set in a post - apocalyptic world. It's full of action and adventure, with a thought - provoking plot that explores themes like survival, power, and the human spirit. The story follows a group of children in a very difficult and dangerous situation, and Nix does a great job of making the readers feel the tension and the stakes.
Sure. 'The Seventh Tower' is a great choice. It's an exciting series that takes readers on a journey through a strange and magical world. The characters are well - developed, and the story is full of twists and turns.
One popular theme is magic. His short stories often feature various forms of magic that are unique and integral to the plot. For example, in some stories, magic is used to solve mysteries or overcome great challenges. Another theme is adventure. The characters in his short stories usually embark on exciting adventures, exploring strange and unknown worlds. Also, the theme of self - discovery is common. Characters grow and learn about themselves through the events they experience in the stories.
I would recommend 'Infestation'. It's a short but exciting story with some really cool concepts. And 'The Wrong Book' is also a great pick. It has a really interesting premise and the way the story unfolds is quite fascinating.
We can expect great world - building. Garth Nix is excellent at creating vivid and detailed worlds. For instance, in his past works, he has made worlds with different rules of magic and unique geographical features. His new novel might also have strong and relatable characters. They could be on a quest, perhaps to save their world from a great evil or to discover a long - lost secret.
The significance might be in the act of protection. Holding the bridge could protect the old kingdom from invaders, safeguarding its people and resources.
I did not find any information about the picture of the Evernight Goddess, so I am unable to provide it. If you have any other questions, please let me know at any time. I will try my best to answer them for you.
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I'm not sure which specific 'to hold the bridge an old kingdom story' you are referring to. There could be many stories in an old kingdom related to holding a bridge. Maybe it's about a heroic defense of a bridge in a battle to protect the kingdom.
I'm not sure specifically as I haven't read it in detail. But generally, it could be about various things like the story of a character named Nix, or it might revolve around a particular place or event related to 'nix' in the fictional world of the novel.