Hope Beyond Deprivation (DEFIANT SERIES #8) Safira Ellison was raised and lived all her life without the fantasies she desire. If there's one word that describes her life it was pure distitution. Indeed, she was a strong independent woman but she was standing with her own beliefs in life. Her life is a bag of surprises because once she met a person opposite from the world she was used to be. Bewildered yet she was guilty that the person she encountered break her rules and surpass her wall. Will she finally believe that there's hope beyond deprivation or she will be forever standing with her own vision? Started: August 16, 2021 Ended: November 24, 2021

She was lost and caged herself with the idea of being alone. Bitterness can be seen in her eyes but what if life surprises her that in a blink of an eye she was under someone's spell, oh it has nothing to do with magic potions and midnight under the moon chanting sessions but indeed it was pure love and confusion. I was lost and nowhere to be found. I have wings yet I'm afraid to fly but when he came I was caught at the moment and I'm nowhere to escape from his arms. -Isabela Montemayor Started: August 5, 2021 Ended: February 1, 2022

"I was born to suffer.I was born to be hurt.I was born to kill lives.But don't you think I've done enough? That I deserve to be loved too? By you....perhaps? A monster A living cold ice.. A killing machine... That is how they see Avrionne Iris Ceranza. Known as Amethyst of Red Eagle and Virgo of McVain. She decided to quit the organization to live a normal life, hiding in the Philippines. Will she be able to get what she has been wanting? A peaceful and normal life with her family, as a teenager and as a student. Or Danger will keep on hunting her and bring her a bigger trouble? "Tempting yet deadly.' .... Not your typical mafia/gangster story.

After the spread of severe viral infection, the world was forced to stop working. COVID-19 caused by the coronavirus called SARS-CoV2 rapidly spreads easily causes infections that primarily affect the lungs and airways. Cielestina Louise Alcantara, a registered nurse, was tasked with taking part in managing the crisis. She met Matteo Christopher Canciano who was infected by the virus. He is currently serving as the CEO of the hospital where she is employed. Interestingly, he is also the man with whom she slept with a month before the outbreak occurred. Can love spread faster than the virus? Or must their hearts be quarantined, bound by protocols and their disparities?