MATURED CONTENT(R-18) Phoenix Series#6: Rein Sandoval "I can hear my own hearbeat and it shouts your name." - Rein Sandoval

MATURED CONTENT(R-18) Phoenix Series#5: Jastin Rivera "I beg you. Don't give up on me. Please." - Jastin Rivera Date started: August 2019 Date ended: September 2019

MATURED CONTENT(R-18) Phoenix Series#4: Renz Anderson "I love you until my last breathe." - Renz Anderson Date started: May 2019 Date ended: August 2019

MATURED CONTENT(R-18) Phoenix Series#2: Edsel Ford "I did not choose you, my heart did." -Edsel Ford Date started: January 2019 Date ended: March 2019

MATURED CONTENT(R-18) Phoenix Series#3: Alexander Kiel Ford "It's amazing that just by looking at you makes my heart skips a beat." - Alexander Kiel Ford Date started: March 2019 Date ended: May 2019

Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction? ****** Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything. [[word count: 200,000-250,000 words]]

Desire, lust, love... You're not supposed to feel those things for a woman, and you're definitely not allowed to act on them when you're a Catholic priest. I had taken vows; vows that I've upheld for eight celibate years, and had made a promise to God that I swore I would never break. But then I met Eva, my stepmother's estranged twenty-eight-year-old daughter, and she made me forget who I was. What I was. I prayed for guidance. I prayed for the strength not to give into temptation. My prayers went unanswered...or so I thought.

To earn the freedom to write her headlines in the newspaper, Fiorisce has to expose the rot buried deep beneath Dr. Xalvien's pristine reputation. *** Fiorisce Lavandula is a rising journalist with one dream: to make it to the front page. Her assignment? Uncover the truth behind Xalvien Vouganville, the beloved psychiatrist with a reputation too spotless to be true. The search for scandal becomes a journey through Xalvien's damaged mind. Xalvenge, the volatile, haunted, and mysterious attorney, is hidden behind Xalvien's calm façade--the secret locked away by years of trauma from a shadowed asylum stay. As they solve mysteries, Fiorisce's ambition is tested by forces bigger than fame. When secrets threaten Xalvien's reputation, she must decide whether to expose the story or protect the person who trusted her enough to let her in. DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish.