Longing for peace in Isla de Vista, Amber is dragged back to the city when her father demands she marry a rich, dumb man to secure their business. But the moment she meets Elijah Buenavista-the "dummy" her father mocks-she realizes he's hiding secrets her family never saw coming. *** Isla de Vista's peaceful shoreline seemed to free Amber Paige Valencia from her father's demands. Yet peace never lasts. After being summoned back to the city, she is forced into an arranged marriage with a Buenavista, Elijah Luis, whom everyone calls a dumb heir. Amber anticipates a dummy. Instead, she meets a handsome, commanding man who's far too self-assured to be the dumb man her father mocks. And once the vows are spoken, the truth begins to unravel. Elijah Luis Buenavista is no simple rich boy. He is the youngest general in history, a strategist who battled in secret and planned their marriage for reasons only he knows. Will Amber embrace his deadly secrets or will loving him put her in greater danger than she thought? DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish. COVER DESIGN: Louise De Ramos

The S #4 Kaia Persephone Ziegler is an actress, not just by profession but also in real life. After all, she needs to act if she wants to survive the chains that her father has on her neck. She needs to act like an obedient daughter. She needs to act like a lovestruck fiancée. She needs to act like everything is okay to her even when it is not. She has been acting for her entire life that she is already used to it. That is until she gets saved by Hadeon Davis Serrano during the worst night of her life, a stranger that slowly becomes her solace, an escape where she can get rid of her facade, and a haven for throwing her inhibitions. Something that she never thought she can have in this lifetime. Will Hades be her way out of hell? Or will she only drag him into the pits with her, just like how the myth goes?

The S #3 She was the most innocent and purest Serrano... until she wasn't. Alister Santiesteban is the name that Hyon wrote in the back of her notebook with hearts all over when she was eleven years old. Ever since she laid her eyes on him the day he helped her when she tripped, she never looked at anyone else again. Until...

Elara Soledad de Merced thrives in attention and affection-being the youngest and only daughter, never once did she experience being set aside and treated as someone deemed unworthy. All her life, she was treated with utmost care and love. The princess with a perfect life who had never gone through hardship. Boys dream of her. Girls look up to her. Some hate her. Whatever she does, everyone follows. Second to none, rejection was something she was never familiar with, until him-her first love and the only man who ever rejected her. But not even her first rejection could stop her, so she pulls out her highest heels and her sparkly little dress, because what Elara wants, Elara gets. Luis Silvino Prodigalidad is what she wants, and she will get him, even if it means painting his hurricane into pink skies.

Kairos Levi Soledad de Merced was chaos and wildness altogether. A lover of the world and all the pleasures it has to offer. Love and commitment? That never existed in his vocabulary. He was the type to give you the highs and all the best things in life, leaving you wanting more, only to be forgotten by him the next day. Chasing the wild tide of life and living without inhibitions was his way of life. He prefers all things physical and casual. He wants his life to be simple, easy, and hot- the same way he wants his woman to be. Ma. Anisa Sta Ines is smart, confident, strong-willed.... and smart again. Matalino, matapang, magaling. Pero hindi maganda. All her life, she has been nothing but an extra in everyone's story. The wingman, the third wheel, and the go-to person for everyone interested in her friends. She knew she was never meant to be chosen, never meant to be pursued. She was the calm of a Wednesday morning; The stability that people usually take for granted. But her stability and peace ceased to exist when Kairos rejected her love letter in front of the whole Eunthastica. Not because he rejected her in front of the whole school. But because the letter wasn't for him, it was supposed to be for Iñigo, his cousin. ---- Started: June 2025 Completed: September 2025

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MONTEVINSKI SERIES #5 Hillary Raya N. Montevinski, one of the gems, has a secret crush on his brother's best friend. She knows that liking someone who's committed is not ethical, indeed an evil fantasy, especially if it's her best friend who's in a relationship with him. However, she knows something no one knows. She knows she stands a chance. She hopes to be with him instead, because she believes he deserves her way of loving. She deserves him better. She believes that he is entitled to be liberated from whatever holding his soul captived. But the only thing that could set their love free is the truth that will ruin the things that were once beautiful. What are they willing to do?

MONTEVINSKI SERIES #4 Alanis Gray Montevinski, a girl who was loved and adored by everyone was locked and froze by a tragedy. She learned that distancing herself was the best remedy for all the people that have been hurt. Car racing was her way of coping with the unending devastation. The day before she goes back to Manila, she raced with a stranger on an open route in LA. She won and wasn't chased. But little did she know, it's not yet the last race of her with him.

MONTEVINSKI SERIES #3 Norwyn Enesi Tadashi is the Japanese setter of Raven Claws. She's known for being soft, selfless and solicitous. She thinks she's not yet ready for any romantic feelings for some reasons, that's why Mooze Diego Montevinski, the notorious playboy, badboy, and a basketball player of the generation had a hard time winning her heart.

MONTEVINSKI SERIES #2 Uoiea Ishan Villaceran is one of the popular Archers. A hopeless daughter who always feel unlovely and a second option. And here comes the embodiment of a Greek God, Xydon Zeus Montevinski, a hot football player who can always make her heart feels everything it desires to feel. Everything was happening according to their plans, but then, just like in archery, cupid's arrows faze, too.