Dewi’s first day at the office didn’t go too well. Her welcome party as the new secretary at Helman Communications was a real mess. She got a pretty cruel practical jokes from Wisnu, the chairman of Helman Commu, her boss. Depressed and frustrated from her own problems lately, Dewi gone completely mad. She gone berserk at Wisnu, tossing around his office equipments and even expelled him from his own office. Realizing that his practical jokes have made Dewi angry, Wisnu then apologize by sending her dozens of flower. And realizing that her rage was somewhat overreacted, Dewi forgive him. They then manage to repair their professional relationship and get down to their daily routine jobs at the office. But the odd starting point of their first meeting brought them into one unusual closeness they’ve never thought before. Not only they perfect for each other as employer and secretary, they then become best friends off the office. Dewi even blended very well into Wisnu’s family. Soon afterwards, rumors and gossips began to spread widely about their close relationship. Everyone believe they love each other and should go on a date. But both of them agreed to turn down such idea since they do not have, feel, or share that romantic passionate feeling called love. Besides, they had their own love story too. Wisnu with a popular music star named Tatiana Arief, and Dewi with Daus, her longtime boyfriend for the past two years. But right after their stories collapsed and they realized that nobody stands against them anymore, both Dewi and Wisnu start to think about their own chance. Would they still need that romantic passionate feeling to unite as a couple while they perfectly knew that they are truly fit and perfect for each other? Do we still need love? And can we say no to love?
Author
I was born on May 4, 1971, on a small village called Gedongan in Magelang County, the province of Central Java, Indonesia. Following the footsteps of my father who is a comicbook artist and cartoonist, I want to be a comicbook artist and a cartoonist too. Then, something happened that change my life completely. In 1985, I became a member of Perpustakaan Keliling or Mobile Library, a service provided by the Local Government Public Library Office of Semarang to urge young people to read. The Mobile Library comes in a small truck fully loaded by books, especially teenage romance novels, children storybook, and detective novels. It arrives in my neighborhood once a week every Wednesday at 3 PM. Through the Mobile Library I read books by Agatha Christie, Enid Blyton, and Indonesian legends such as Arswendo Atmowiloto and deeply impressed by them. Soon after, I switch my future dreams from comicbook and cartoon into literature and fiction. Then I swore myself to dedicate my life as a novelist like those big names. I started my writing career as a freelance writer at Cempaka Minggu Ini family tabloid in 1992. Five years later I became an editor at Dharma news tabloid and in Tren teens tabloid in 2001. My first big break on publishing world came exactly 20 years after I enrolled to become the member of the Mobile Library. In 2005, I published my first novel, Kok Jadi Gini?Kok Jadi Gini, literally means How Come It Could be Like This in English. To this day, I’ve written five novels which are all published by PT Elex Media Komputindo and 2 more which are published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama, both in Jakarta. Now I write novels and work as an editor at Gradasi teens magazine since August 2007.
