PUBLISHED UNDER MANILA POP Young Love Series #1: Mearah June Escalera Romantic love is different for every person. For Mearah June Escalera, she believes that only those who are unique and special can experience it. Love is certainly not for someone like her--an average girl who, if in a movie, can only be an "extra." Hinding-hindi s'ya magiging pasok sa criteria ng pagiging "main character." As June continued believing that no one can ever see her as someone special, she found herself being confessed to by the guy she least expects to have interest in her. Will Mearah June realize that she's capable of being loved? Or will she continue believing that she's not worthy of being the "main character"? Started: June 24, 2021 Ended: July 5, 2021 Cover illustration by: @Zirree

The forbidden fruit that everyone wants to have a taste, a woman of the world, liberated, wild, and without a doubt, gorgeous - Odine Beateressa Santibaniez. She believes that with her beauty she can wrap a man in her fingers. She can have everything in just a snap. True enough, many are allured and the list goes on and on. Indeed, she is a nightmare dressed like a daydream. But her prowess was put to the test when the man she's eyeing didn't even give her a second look. Her pheromone didn't work on Illion Logramonte, a real snob who hates her kind. Hindi niya iyon matanggap. She was furious. No one has ever turned her down. She always has her way. To gain her glory back, she will do everything to have Illion, by hook or by crook. She will make sure, she will have him on bended knees and in blind need for her. Behind every man's downfall is a woman. At sisiguraduhin niyang siya iyon. She will be Illion's greatest downfall. Mark her words! Logramonte 02: Wandering One (dreame) Logramonte 03: Unruly One

Adara Karisa Lois A. Cuestano

THE WATTY AWARDS 2021 WINNER: ROMANCE Due to an unexpected pregnancy, ex-lovers Ryo and Frankie are forced to live under the same roof. They can't stand each other but when the moments from their past are slowly catching up, their lingering feelings seem to be much stronger than they thought it would be. *** When Frankie Castañares broke up with Ryo Canencia, she is determined to move on and never meet him again. They are living well on their own with her working hard to be a magazine editor and him reaching his dream of becoming a professional basketball player. But with the news of Frankie being pregnant with Ryo's child, they've got no choice but to act civil and live under the same roof. They bicker over the simplest things and their situation couldn't get any easier than they ought to be. With them still hung up on their past, can they be brave enough to settle their differences and start all over again? Disclaimer: This story is written in Taglish. Cover Illustration by 17aila_

Familià Altamirano Series #4 Dwight Nixxon Altamirano, the grumpy, uptight, elusive, unapproachable Architect and president of the D&A Legacy was having a hard time moving on from the girl he loved: his cousin's best friend and his best friend's love interest. Rashaiah Dorothy Morrison, also known as 'Rara', was born to be a superstar. She was famous not just locally but internationally. With her award-winning acting, exceptional beauty, and talents-no doubt, she is the most successful actress in this generation. Rara distanced herself from the crowd because of what happened to her in the past-not until she crossed paths with her best friend's older brother, who hated her! After what she had been through, the least Rara wanted was someone to hate her. So, she comes up with an idea. She will win her best friend's older brother's favour. She wants him to like her for his brother, yet everything goes upside down when her plan gets tumbled: she falls in love with Dwight hard and fast. She can get everything she wants in just a snap of her fingers, but could she break Dwight's defences and win his heart? Will she succeed in enticing this elusive beast? ╰┈➤ WARNING: R18. This story contains strong words like curses, prejudice, explicit sex scenes, and other disturbing concepts. In short, mature content that is not suitable for younger readers. Read at your own risk. Started: October 31, 2024 Ended: 2025 Written by: Fushiaxpink_ © All rights reserved

Yvonne Maica Lim is an aspiring UAAP court side reporter for UST, she was so close to getting her football player crush after plotting on him for almost a year...but everything fell apart when she had to fake date the infamous star basketball player of the UST Growling Tigers instead. Book cover by cottonbro studio in pexels

MONTEVINSKI SERIES #1 Kelly Sian Gonzaga is the notorious captain of the generation, and everyone knows she likes Zoren Gray Montevinski, a volleyball captain from another campus. She did everything to get him, and when she was about to get what she wanted, she retreated. Sometimes, young love can be aggressive, destructive, and uncertain. It's a phase where young people fall in love and fall out of it in time. But Kesian knew it wasn't just a shallow kind of young love. She knew her heart better than other people. However, no matter how profound her feelings were, there were still more important than love that must be prioritized before her feelings. Family, responsibility, embarrassment, and trauma. She chose to let go of that young love. She left him like a ball, hanging mid-air. But not all young love that ends lasts forever. Their story didn't end just like that. Because just like a ball thrown away, they will always fall and be back in each other's arms. 🏐#1: Mid Air Ball

When Natalia Alexandrine Dela Merced was born, it was a bittersweet grain of ends and beginnings-her mother couldn't survive due to certain health complications. She was raised prim and proper by her father, who has constantly expressed his civil and straightforward plans for her in the City of Baguio. Buong buhay niya, hindi siya kailanman nagreklamo sa pagpapasiya ng kaniyang ama para sa kaniyang buhay. She's a Civil Engineering student with an exceptional sense of control and intelligence. She doesn't divert from her plans-she sticks with them through fire and water. But life turns a whole 180-degree when she starts resorting to spontaneous decisions. She began to appreciate uncalled decisions and plans made in a heartbeat because of Apollo 1997's lead vocalist -Octavian Desmond Santillan. But would that do her good in the long term? Especially when she encounters a twisted and wicked life event brought by the man she has finally found a home and genuine happiness with. Started: October 2020 Finished: June 2021

Cat Villanueva is the Headnurse of HC Medical City at nabuntis siya ng kinaiinisan at mortal enemy na Doktor. Ito ay si Rat Velaroza, isang OB-GYN. Ayaw sa kanya magpa-prenatal check-up ni Cat. Kaya ang ginawa niya ay pina-blacklist niya ito sa lahat ng clinics at hospitals para sa kanya lang magpa-check up. -- Started: November 16, 2018 Finished: November 12, 2024 Book cover by: Gwin Lentia

Cassidy Hurdiss intentionally broke the heart of the one man who has always loved her. She had to set him free so he could fulfill his lifelong dream to be a successful business tycoon in New York City. Four years later, Aaron Ceyx Monteverde comes back with money, power and a thirst for revenge. He is determined to make Cassidy regret her wrong decisions. So, when the opportunity presented itself, he immediately grabbed it. Cassidy is rich, filthy rich. Or so she believed. Because the next thing she knows, she was sold to the billionaire. Will love prevail or will it tear them even more apart? This is a story about love, trust, forgiveness and second chances. Wattys Winner 2015 Highest rank achieved: #1 in Romance Monteverde Series 1 Aaron Ceyx Monteverde © All rights reserved. Property of Patyeah (Patricia Nicole Danao). Published by PSICOM Publishing.