neil gaiman and amanda palmer

Amanda seorang perempuan manja, putri seorang pengusaha besar yang terpaksa kabur dari rumah dan mengubah penampilannya menjelma menjadi Adam, seorang lelaki cantik karena menolak perjodohan dengan seorang lelaki anak dari teman bisnis sang Ayah. Namun dalam pelariannya Amanda di hadapkan dengan dua pilihan sang jodoh atau sang penolong?? Arya adalah pemuda yang diam diam ia suka dan ia kagumi namun ternyata adalah orang yang akan di jodohkan dengannya. Dirga adalah teman barunya selama dalam penyamaran. Yang diam diam terpikat oleh pesona Adam alias Amanda. Dua lelaki yang mengira diri mereka mulai tidak normal karna terpikat oleh pesona lelaki cantik.. kepada siapakah hati Amanda akan berlabuh??

Amanda, seorang pengusaha yang punya segalanya, cantik, punya karir yang bagus, dia mengabdikan seluruh hidupnya pada satu hal yaitu karirnya. Tapi hampir tidak ada orang yang tahu kalau dia punya satu hal yang tidak pernah dia miliki, cinta. Amanda tidak pernah mencintai seumur hidupnya. Suatu kejadian mengubah hidup Amanda dan mengajari Amanda untuk mulai mencintai.

An action, drama, with a pinch of romance story, where it takes place in a world where mosnstrous creatures called akuma's roamed over the surface of the earth, infecting humans, turning them into one of them, and humans lived inside city walls to survive, where a new generation of humans gained supernatural powers/abilities to survive and fight against these creatures. Yuji, the main character, was close friends with the strongest person and most famous female student on their school, but Yuji was being discriminated for having nothing but a strong immune system for an ability. When the time of tragedy comes, how will a person with just a strong immune system survive?

Neil Angelo, born from a legacy of blood and betrayal, stands as the heir to a long-lost dynasty in the American underworld. Growing up in the shadows of Asia’s most dangerous streets—from the smuggling routes of Mumbai to the high-tech cyber labs of Beijing—Neil makes his way back to America with a singular mission: to reclaim his father’s broken empire. But the landscape has shifted. The mafia is no longer governed by old-world traditions; it’s now a battleground of technology, strategy, and fear. From the dazzling casinos of Las Vegas to the covert arms deals in Russia, Neil finds himself in a game of wits against seasoned crime lords, government operatives, and even the women who might want his heart—or his life. As conflict simmers in the dark and foes disguise themselves as allies, Neil Angelo faces a critical choice: rise to power as a king... or fall like a mere pawn. In this ruthless world of crime, loyalty is the ultimate currency, love is a perilous game, and power comes at a steep price—paid in blood.

Después de kathleen nacer, un poderoso ser logró destruir a Zafiro o eso cree el, Zafiro ahora como Amanda tiene de nuevo una oportunidad y con ello tomar de nuevo una gran desicion, pero esta vez no está sola, ella junto con Elvis, Menuel y más amigos descubrirá una gran verdad.

After Kathleen was born, a powerful being managed to destroy Sapphire or so he believes, Sapphire now as Amanda has a chance again and thus again take a big decision, but this time she is not alone, she along with Elvis, Manuel and more friends will discover a great truth.

Synopsis of The CEO’s Substitute Bride By Amanda Ugosinachi (Contemporary Romance In the glittering, cutthroat world of Lagos high society, where billion-dollar deals are sealed with champagne and betrayal is currency, one desperate act of substitution ignites a marriage built on lies, secrets, and an attraction neither party can afford. Amara Kingsley has always lived in the shadow of her identical twin sister, Elena—the dazzling, reckless socialite who was born to shine in ballrooms and boardrooms. While Elena flirted with power players and dreamed of escaping their family’s crumbling legacy, Amara quietly supported their dying mother, worked double shifts as a temp secretary, and kept the household from collapsing under mountains of medical debt and Kingsley Industries’ impending bankruptcy. Everything changes on the morning of Elena’s wedding to Dominic Blackwood, the ruthless thirty-four-year-old CEO of Blackwood Enterprises—the man who controls half of Nigeria’s tech infrastructure, luxury real estate, and political backchannels. The marriage was never about love; it was a calculated merger. In exchange for Dominic bailing out the Kingsley empire and clearing their debts, Elena would become the perfect society wife for two years, granting Dominic access to a priceless family asset: the original land deed to a strategic coastal property his family had lost during the civil war. The deed, hidden for decades, was the final piece Dominic needed to complete his vision of an unbreakable business dynasty. But hours before the ceremony, Elena vanishes. No note. No goodbye. Only a single frantic text to Amara: I can’t do this. Forgive me. Their father, desperate and cornered, corners Amara in the bridal suite. With a gun pressed metaphorically to their mother’s hospital bed, he delivers the ultimatum: “If you don’t walk down that aisle in her place, your mother dies tonight. The doctors will stop treatment. The accounts will be frozen. We lose everything.” Amara, twenty-six, soft-spoken, and utterly unprepared for the spotlight, has no choice. She dons Elena’s couture gown, hides behind the heavy veil, and walks down the aisle toward a stranger who believes he is marrying the woman who negotiated the deal with cool confidence months earlier. Dominic Blackwood notices something is wrong the moment their lips meet at the altar. The kiss is brief, perfunctory, but the woman beneath the veil trembles in a way Elena never would. Her hands are calloused from real work; her eyes hold fear instead of calculation. Yet he says nothing. The cameras flash. The guests applaud. The contract is signed. The lie is sealed. That night, in the master suite of his hilltop Lagos mansion, Dominic lays out the rules with surgical precision: No touching unless required for public appearances. Separate lives behind closed doors. A staged “consummation” for the household staff and his mother’s satisfaction. Absolute honesty—except, of course, for the one truth Amara cannot confess. Amara agrees, smears synthetic blood on the sheets as instructed, and spends her wedding night on one side of a pillow barricade while Dominic lies awake on the other, already suspecting he has been deceived. The days that follow are a masterclass in forced proximity and slow unraveling. Amara moves through the mansion like a ghost—exploring the library, the conservatory, the rooftop gym—while Dominic watches her from afar. He notices the small things: the way she reads Achebe with quiet reverence, the way she flinches when staff approach too quickly, the way she never once demands anything from him. She is nothing like the Elena he thought he was buying. Meanwhile, Elena’s disappearance begins to haunt them both. Mysterious texts arrive on Amara’s burner phone. You think you can take my place? Watch your back, sister. Victoria Langford, Elena’s former boarding-school friend and a sharp-tongued socialite with her own agenda, corners Amara

In a world where being smart without money means you're nothing, Arnold Palmer learned at a very young age that being talented or book smart alone could not save him. A 19-year-old scholarship student at an elite university, Arnold lives at the very bottom of the societal hierarchy and is constantly mocked by rich heirs, overlooked and ignored by his lecturers, and sometimes brought to his knees by a society that only respects the wealthy and influential. Ignored by fate and abandoned by his father for over two years now, Arnold’s only reason for living is his younger sister, Zendaya Palmer, the only responsibility he swore never to abandon. But everything changes for them the night Arnold saves Zendaya from some thugs and stumbles upon a drive that contains an authority file that has access to a forgotten crypto asset since 2010. But what happens when Arnold gets to understand that the crypto asset that changed his future was the same reason his father left and his best friend was not just his best friend all along? This is the story of a man who rose not for revenge but to protect the people he loves, and to ensure no one would ever threaten them again.

Before there was Edward and Vasili Ethan and Demyan EJ and Connor There was Amanda and Marco The beginning of everything It all started with an arrangement, until the lines were blurred and the bylaws of contract terms turned into smoke. The flames of passion took over and it was up to Amanda to make sure she didn't get burned.

Neil is a young adult stuck in a monotonous routine-driven life. Follow him as he explores himself and his dark thoughts. *Short Read*