The Man Behind The Scars Pria Di Balik Luka

Tanpa diduga oleh banyak orang, Rafe McFarland—Earl of Pembroke kedelapan—menikahi mantan model, Angel Tilson. Angel memang sedang mengalami kesulitan finansial dan satu-satunya jalan keluar baginya adalah menikah dengan pria kaya. Untunglah sang earl dengan luka parut di wajah itu menerima tawarannya. Selama ini Rafe selalu menghindari interaksi dengan kaum wanita, meskipun ia membutuhkan kehadiran seorang istri. Kehadiran Angel yang mengabaikan bekas lukanya dan menawarkan pernikahan sandiwara, membuatnya menerima tawaran wanita itu. Namun, ketika Angel tanpa diduga mampu menyusup ke dalam hatinya, Rafe justru ingin mengakhiri perjanjian mereka.

Rafe McFarland, eighth Earl of Pembroke--and twenty-first-century heartthrob--has secretly wed former model and tabloid darling Angel Tilson Angel has long been believed to be in financial difficulty, prompting feverish speculation that her marriage to the tortured billionaire is one of the strictest convenience.... Bearing terrible scars from his time in the military, Rafe rarely leaves his remote Scottish estate. And with the terms of this deal negotiated, possibly behind tightly closed bedroom doors, is Rafe demanding repayment--in kind--from his new wife...'

Crushed beneath enormous debt, Angel decides to risk it all by going to a party for the rich and famous to find a husband and turn her life around! If all goes well, she’ll finally be free. And during the party, who should approach her but Earl Rafe McFarland, ruggedly handsome, scarred and, of course, very rich. So Angel steels herself to do anything to get him to marry her?anything.

From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a novel of tragedy and dark histories set in Japan. University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? Ryusei, a fellow student at Waseda who harbored unrequited feelings for Miwako, begs her best friend Chie to bring him to the remote village where she spent her final days. While they are away, his older sister, Fumi, who took Miwako on as an apprentice in her art studio, receives an unexpected guest at her apartment in Tokyo, distracting her from her fear that Miwako’s death may ruin what is left of her brother’s life. Expanding on the beautifully crafted world of Rainbirds, Clarissa Goenawan gradually pierces through a young woman’s careful façade, unmasking her most painful secrets.