My Pretend Summer

“She’ll make a fine doppelgänger for my daughter. She can pass as the fake princess. Well done, Dimitri.” The king's words hit Fiona like a physical blow, shattering the illusion of a fairytale. The ballroom, once a place of glittering dreams, now felt like a suffocating trap. He’d bought her. Trained her. Used her. All this time, the stolen glances, the whispered promises, the tender touches—it was a lie. A calculated deception. Her gaze, burning with betrayal, locked onto Dimitri’s. How could he? His eyes, usually warm and reassuring, were now cold and distant, fixed on the king with a chilling intensity. A knot of dread tightened in her stomach. Fiona, a young girl, is sold off to Dimitri, a prince who rejected his title, where she is trained to become a doppelgänger to the cursed princess. They’ve never seen face to face, but with the prince from the top kingdom coming to marry his betrothed princess, Fiona and the princess must find a way to break the curse while Fiona pretends to be the princess. When Fiona finds that her parents were involved, she has to uncover the secrets behind her parents death, the princess curse and her role in all of it. But what happens when Fiona falls in love with both Prince Eric and Dimitri, and things don't go according to plan?

Friends reuniting again as adults, as they seek love. With some reuniting a spark. (Story is between 2 writers and will take time. Me and my female friend M)

Debby was paid to marry him, but he fell for her even before she could start her mission. Just when their relationship was about to heat up, he found out she's paid to be in his life.

The issue that originally preoccupied Tang Xian's thoughts was whether, amidst these world-destroying bosses, he should be a hero for just a second or continue to pretend to be a boss. Later, he realized that, in the midst of pretense, he had actually become genuine...

Xia Yue feels her life is as melodramatically convoluted as a novel. The family that raised her for more than twenty years isn't truly hers, and she's merely a counterfeit rich girl. After confirming she's indeed not a child of the Xia family, she takes the initiative and moves out, making space for the real heiress. And then, she gets knocked out by an object in the courtyard of her new home, and ends up being bound to a system. This system has no sense of martial morality, even going as far as imposing tasks on her forcibly. But the system doesn't care about her complaints, constantly pestering her. Xia Yue is so annoyed, it's giving her a headache. So, she decides to get rid of the system.

Neva and Rhett, the two youths have their heart strings attached in love. Interfering their peaceful life circumstances unfolds scattering blades in their romance. Ishmael, with a heart of spikes, he looks to mend the wound, searching and failing for his Neva separated from him. Rays of love and joy filtering through clouds of horror in the world, Neva before him once more. The twisted fate entangling them, reveals the game of sphere as misery burns their soul. Concealed life beyond turning pages—one after another. The tale gathers: sin and virtue, tragedy and fortune, strength and weakness, destruction and creation, love and hate. Illusion is where we live; in the Garden of Eden before the fall of man. Illusive is serenity; an evermore sanguine of love. Visionary of paradise in the new earth; sows hope deep in the soul. Delusory pleasure of the world; shall bring us burns in the ocean of fire. Illusive Eden is rapture. Illusive Eden is tragedy. The fall of the man, even now bleeding red. The whisper whirls with the dawn of a man. He, who pretends to be the Hero. (The girl who promised to always be together, Forbids him to ever appear, Refusing to recognise him, She disregards all he ever had. Vowing to protect her, He's the terrifying truth she hopes rules lie. Tripping and ripping her, He's the living tragedy looming in on her life. He once was her Elayne, now her hiraeth; He's the villain pretending to be a Hero.)

Elman, the guardian angel to Lucia Lambert, is cast to earth as punishment for meddling in human affairs without permission from the almighty, He is to prove himself worthy of remaining an angel for the next 365 days and is not allowed to fall in love, going against one of the rules given to him would cost him to be cast to hell. Deman, the girl's demon is also in human form and Elman makes keeping Lucia safe from Deman his priority. But what happens when both Deman and Elman start to fall for the innocent, unsuspecting girl?? What will happen especially to Elman? Will it be heaven or hell for him? FIND OUT!!!

The Angel of Death. The man everyone fears. They say he’s merciless, that he has killed more people than anyone in the Circle. No one dares cross him. But there’s a secret, one that no one knows. James Bellini has never killed anyone. Not once. The rumors started because of a misunderstanding, a mistake so deep that even he couldn’t fix it. The truth is something only God himself could untangle. And James? He’s just a man caught in the middle of it all.

When your main tormentor turns into your destined fate? Always the unseen one—the Beta's daughter who never lived up to her father's expectations and the pack's favourite outcast—Aria Sterling is But nobody makes her life more intolerable than Luca Blackwood, the haughty and merciless Alpha heir who apparently enjoys her suffering. Everything changes the night the Mate's Mark shows on Aria's wrist, shining with the unambiguous decision of the Moon Goddess: she and Luca are bound by fate. Luca responded? transparent rejection. Public shame. a promise to never take her. But the link is more with power than with love. The Mate's Mark is a portent of hardships that might either unify or destroy the pack entirely, not only a sign of romance. Aria and Luca discover they are at the centre of a storm building inside their ranks as murmurs of a prophesy surface. The pack is split, their link is weak, and the truths buried in their pasts might ruin them both. Aria has to choose whether to fight for a bond she never wanted—or risk losing the pack she calls home—while enemies are closing in and fate weighs on their shoulders. In this story of forced intimacy, swizzling tension, and high-stakes power moves, love and hate blur. Will Aria and Luca's relationship turn into their biggest weapon, or their ultimate undoing?

Imagination was the eye of the soul, the beginning of creation. Despite her immense power, the Supreme Goddess of Mysterious Origin had to seal herself after saving the world from the threat of destruction. However, she was sent to another world by the universe's will. Ely was a girl suffering from partial memory loss. She was known as the shrine priestess of the Sacred Mountain. One day, she received the holy mission to unseal her Goddess Master. She got her priorities straight. However... The pets she adopted became the Demon Kings, capable of suppressing the world. The tree she planted became the World Tree, forming a bridge between heaven and earth. The passerby who received enlightenment from her became the Sage who led the entire generation. The disciples she nurtured became bigshots known across the three worlds. When she looked back... The street painter who pestered her for her handicrafts and paintings turned out to be a God. The young priestess she recruited was actually the number one saintess from the Divine World. She was known as the holy saintess. Yet, she still referred to herself as a mortal.

Laya, a rebellious young woman, desperate for freedom and adventure, escapes the confines of her traditional upbringing. In the bustling streets of a nearby town, she meets a charismatic outsider, and their passionate encounter sets off a chain of events that puts her very life at risk. As she navigates the treacherous consequences of her choices, she must confront the darkness of her past and the secrets that threaten to destroy her future.

Canary Lienne is playful, skips classes and never serious in her studies. 'You only live once' is the title of the song she thought of as her motto to believe. Then with just one reservation at a café, she met Samuel. He is mature, silent and an adult. Samuel is her first crush. Isn't it great that they both like each other? As she grows up and faces independence, learns of things she never knew, will the bad little girl Cana remain? Or does Samuel's love and care make her the good girl she has always wanted to look up to? A warm cup of coffee in the summer and a slice of romance, a story of growing up, family, friendship, betrayal, bullying, coming out and the first struggles of teenagers. This is solely based on the experience of the author's teenage years with peers. Disclaimer: The names, characters, setting and scenes are fictional.

Once upon a time, the Land of Promise thrived under the cycle of the four seasons change. Until a vengeful enchantress cursed the land, and divided it into four realms each with a ruler to bear its burden. The people suffered for years under the endless heat in the Summerlands, the bitter cold in the Winterlands, the never changing bloom in the Springlands and the constant fall in the Autumlands. A prophecy whispers of a marriage between a king and queen that will release the land from its curse and unite it under a single kingdom. Princess Caroline is forced to marry the Summer King, will she be able to fight for a peace amidst a court full of power hungry nobles and will she succumb to a burning love in the arms of a fiery warlord?

Song Hajoon only wanted one thing. That one thing is to live peacefully with his brothers. But, it seemed like the world had something else in mind for him. He was thrown into a world of chaos and now he had to fight his way through all the hardship, pain, and the unsettling past which he thought he had long forgotten. What should he do to live peacefully with his family?

Since her parents started disturbing her for marriage Christmas hasn't been the best period for Linda Because that's when she travels home and they reminds her of her single status But this Christmas will be different, because she is bringing home a man to stand as her husband. PRETEND HUSBAND...

Unbeknownst to Seraphina that she was bestowed a gift and also had a past life, she lived her nineteen years in bliss until the day her parents announced a nerve-breaking news to her. She was offered as a peace bride to the son of their family business partner who they were greatly indebted to. Tried and tired of going against the marriage, Seraphina finally succumbed and accepted the proposal to marry the Lord's son under a secret agreement which was between them, the future couple. This agreement unknown to her was a trap from her famous future husband to lure her into his cage and web where together, they revisited everything about their past life. There, she found out that she was not only the town's Belle but also a powerful woman who was bestowed with an incredible gift many fought and wished to acquire which unfortunately, she had misused for the wrong people then. Discovering the hidden dark secrets that were the cause of her death and downfall in her past life, and also about the very one person whom she trusted that was the cause of her death, she vowed to avenge everyone who had used her. But her biggest setback in accomplishing her goal was, she couldn't remember who and what her future husband was in her past life no matter how hard she tried. Without remembering him, she had no power to start her revenge. The only way and breakthrough at which she can remember him was to consummate their marriage which, sadly, was not an easy feat to fulfill. Left with the last option on her list, she chose to kill everyone from her past life including her husband-to-be. But how far could she go to attain her goal with her not-so-easy vampire husband so that fate won't be repeated? She was a determined lioness trapped in the web of a cunning vampire.

Follow Instagram @sere_nity_lee untuk info novel terbaru Serenity Lee Juara 2 WPC 34 #63 Female Lead Cinta Segitiga NOVEL ROMAN-LAGA [MATURE/DEWASA 21+] Alisha wanita lajang, cantik, usia 25 tahun, ahli bela diri, terlibat sebuah misi untuk mengamankan file yang berisi data rahasia tingkat tinggi, yang melibatkan pria yang akan dijodohkannya. Dalam misinya, Alisha harus menikah dengan Adrian seorang progammer, yang telah menemukan file rahasia tingkat tinggi itu. Untuk mengawasinya dan mengambil kembali file tersebut. Pada awal misi, ternyata hatinya terlanjur tertaut pada pria yang menjadi rekan kerjanya. Supervisornya, yang bernama Hilman, yang ditugaskan untuk mengawasi kinerjanya dalam misinya kali ini. Di tugas pertamanya dalam penyamaran. Yang tak lain adalah adik Adrian. Selama menjalankan misinya, Alisha banyak di hadang oleh orang-orang yang ingin dirinya gagal dan dikeluarkan dari timnya, hingga menemukan hal-hal yang tak pernah diduga sebelumnya. Sebuah rahasia di balik kematian ibunya. Sebuah konspirasi. Setelah menikah, Alisha mengetahui bagaimana perasaan Adrian terhadapnya. Juga bagaimana perasaan Hilman terhadapnya. Dicintai oleh dua orang lelaki. Siapakah yang akan Alisha pilih akhirnya setelah misi ini selesai? Akankah misinya berhasil dan juga kisah cintanya? Temukan jawabannya dalam cerita ini ya. cover: www.freepik.com *** Halo, ini cerita perdana saya yang berbau-bau action, tapi masih ada romansanya siy. Hihi mohon maaf jika masih ada banyak kekurangannya yah. Seluruh isi cerita ini hanya fiktif ya, imajinasi pengarang, jadi jika menemukan hal yang tidak sesuai kenyataan, itu karena memang karangan othor aja untuk hiburan. MASUKKAN COLLECTION/TAP LOVE/ADD SEBELUM BACA. AGAR CERITA INI ADA DI DALAM DAFTAR BACAAN KAKAK DAN MENDAPAT NOTIFIKASI SAAT UPDATE BAB BARU ^^ DUKUNG TERUS CERITA INI YA KAK DENGAN MELEMPAR POWER STONE SI BATU BIRU UNTUK CERITA INI! — 1 POWER STONE NANTINYA KAKAK DAPAT 1 VOUCHER GRATIS LHO BUAT BUKA BUKU YANG TERKUNCI. JANGAN LUPA, REVIEW BINTANG 5 YA! MAMPIR JUGA KE CERITAKU YANG LAIN YA KAK: 1. Mendadak Menikah 2. Elegi Cinta Asha 3. Zarina the Abandoned CEO 4. Terpotek Cinta CEO Botak tapi Ganteng 5. Annethaxia Luo Putri Negeri Salju 6. Saat Kita Muda 7. Angela the Alpha's Mate TERIMA KASIH

Severa Yllanna experienced her first heartbreak when Eugene Dominguez, the boy she trusted most, betrayed her during a fateful summer in Esperanza. The wound he left never truly faded, a scar she carried for years. Now, a decade later, fate brings them back together—but this time, she has no choice but to work with him. The past still lingers between them, but Severa refuses to let history repeat itself. After all, some summers may bleed, but do they ever truly heal?

Gemini visits the coastal town for a break from city life, expecting a boring summer. But everything changes when he meets Fourth, a hardworking boy with a secret love for music. As they spend time together—exploring night markets, watching fireworks, and sharing late-night talks on the beach—a quiet but undeniable connection forms. However, as summer nears its end, they must face the reality of their different lives.

Liam Jones, a self-made billionaire with a cold heart, trusts no one—especially women. His mother's betrayal left him scarred, and he’s built an empire on a foundation of bitterness. Love was never meant for him until Amelia, a woman with a lost past, walks into his life. With no memory of her own, she mistakenly believes Liam is the man she once loved.  His indifference to her makes her more curious, and what starts as a chance meeting ignites something in Liam he never thought possible—desire. But when Amelia’s memories return, so do the lies.  And Liam, who abhors deceit, is left questioning everything. Just when it seems their relationship is crumbling under the weight of betrayal, an unexpected figure—Andrew Monroe, Amelia’s dangerous ex—is determined to reclaim her, pushing Liam to the edge. Will Liam’s walls crumble under the pressure of truth, lies, and deceit, or will Amelia’s secrets be the one thing they can’t recover from?

Zowe Slein Martin is a simple, bubbly, happy go lucky and stupid for her crush. Bryan Lupez San Teruso, A.K.A BLUST. Isang high class, fashionable, gwapo, matalino at higit sa lahat sikat sa buong school. Isa siyang transfer student. Gagawin naman lahat ni Zowe para lang mapansin siya nito, a little things na nagagawa o naibibigay sa kaniya ni Blust. Parang umaabot na hanggang langit ang kaniyang ngiti. Pero magbabago ang takbo ng kaniyang kwento pagdating ni Blust sa school nila, Ika-crush back din kaya siya ng crush niya? Magugustohan rin kaya siya nito? Magiging sila kaya? or maybe she's the midnight summer of Blust.

"When the mind forgets, the heart will always remember the love that was once restrained." Noa and Josh were two souls bound by a love so pure, so passionate, that they were willing to defy the odds stacked against them. They fought tirelessly, refusing to let anything or anyone tear them apart. But fate had other plans. A cruel twist of destiny erased their memories of each other, leaving behind only an unshakable emptiness in their hearts. Strangers once more, they now walk separate paths, unaware of the love they once swore to protect. But can love truly be forgotten? Or will their hearts, despite the silence of their minds, find a way back to each other? A story of love, loss, and the undeniable pull of destiny because some loves are meant to be remembered.

Running Into You on a Cold Summer follows the story of Yuki Takemoto, a high school student who is no stranger to the ordinary rhythms of his life until he unexpectedly ends up at a friend’s house one summer evening. There, he meets Shiori Izumi, a girl he's only just started talking to. What was supposed to be a casual hangout soon takes an unexpected turn as the evening spirals into a series of awkward encounters, shared moments, and miscommunications.

Whispers of the Summer Sky** Arjun never planned to spend his summer at a remote countryside resort, much less on a quiet hilltop bench. For him, it was supposed to be an escape from his family and the noise of life—just him, his sketchbook, and the stars. But everything changes when he meets Naina, a spirited and opinionated girl who claims the bench as her own. At first, their encounters are marked by playful arguments and awkward silences, but as the nights pass and the stars grow brighter, they begin to share pieces of themselves—dreams, fears, and the secrets they hide from the world. What starts as a chance meeting turns into something deeper, as the hilltop becomes their sanctuary and the summer sky witnesses the fragile bond forming between them. But summers don’t last forever. As the days slip by, Arjun and Naina must face the reality of their lives beyond the bench. Will their connection survive the world waiting for them, or will it fade like the whispers of the summer sky? A heartfelt story of fleeting moments, unexpected connections, and the beauty of finding someone who truly understands you.

"He's my nemesis. The one person I can't stand. And yet... I can't escape him. Zayne is a nightmare wrapped in temptation, and I refuse to fall. But the way he looks at me? The way he touches me? This could be war... or something far more dangerous."