Gillian Haidee Seminiano dreams of being a Cruise Ship Stewardess. With full of nothing but self-doubt, Archibald Benjie Trinidad believed in her. It all started with the plaything that led them to know each other deeper. They fell, but things aren't in the right places. They need to let go of each other for both of them to grow. Started: May 13, 2020 Finished: July 5, 2020 Status: Complete

Growing up, Trishastrea Yael Delavin has to always personify the proper etiquette her parents instill in her. She lived on their terms and fulfill all their orders. The people in their town pictured her as a perfect model of what a lady should be in the modern days-- she's an epitome of elegance, beauty, and finesse. At the same time, she was viewed snob and intimidating. However, behind those embellishments people learned to see at her, there's more to her than meets the eye. Donato Axton Sernio, the man who possesses everything she hates, saw the real her. He appeared out of nowhere and she question how that man she only met overnight is so persistent to enter her world. And she doesn't think it's a good idea of letting him in. Because after everything they've been through together, they will find themselves twisted by their own fate. Started: April 11, 2022 Finished: March 5, 2023 Status: Complete

Because of business, personal, and political connections, Catalina Mariella Silvero, a second-year business student from the University of Santo Tomas who just wanted to be acknowledged by her father was told to marry Ynigo Allerick Suarez. She can't refuse because she's afraid to disappoint her family. She accepted and did whatever her parents wants because she knew that it was the only way. She wants her father to see her worth as his daughter. Just like Catalina, Ynigo is an only child. His parents want him to help them with political services, but he chooses to walk in his own way and took Business Administration at DLSU instead. They were forced into a fixed marriage due to similar reasons shared by both of their families. Status: Completed Date started writing: October 13, 2022 Date ended writing: December 28, 2022

deceret (n.) latin word for "body to body" Czarina wants to commit suicide. Death is ready for her, she could feel it. Czarina, with her best friend, Sorcha, agreed that they would jump off a building together to end their shitty lives. Just when she was about to jump she felt a pair of strong hands wrapped around her waist, pulling her back to safety. But her best friend really jumped. She died. And Czarina is still alive. What the fuck is life when your betrayal costed your best friend her life? And she discovers that the guy who saved her is more dangerous than death per se.

Laviña Clarene won't run out of reasons why she hates Aristotle. She hates how her life is always entangled with him, na kapag sinabing Laviña karugtong na nito ang Aris. She grew up with him, and even shares her family, not to mention their parents' history. But on top of that, she hates him for taking a big portion of her father's love and attention. Hence, she is always competitive against her archenemy. She won't let him get ahead of her in anything as much as possible. Teachnically, her life revolves hating him. And she knows he feels the same way, too. It's a mutual feeling. But where can this ingrained hate lead her? Will it do her good or will it break her own heart in the end? Hate keeps them together, but hate tears them apart, too. Sa huli, kailangan niyang mamili, to nurture this hate or extinguish it. To hold on to it or finally let it go.

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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

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST BEFORE YOU CONTINUE : If you're not used to another writing style, which includes transitions in between, then I suggest you either read this book with all your deep comprehension and critical understanding, or to wait 'til I'm done revising the book for an even more clean finish. I will be editing this soon after I'm done with the first installment, The Secluded Trails of Deceit, so... ' expect additional chapters of their love story ' some scenes and lines will likely be revised, deleted, and/or replaced ' improvement in writing style and narrations ' revelations, plot twists, and back stories will be reconstructed

Killa Herrera is a woman of strong convictions who stands firm in her beliefs. A strong woman, like that of a Tequila. And an unstoppable one, like that of a tipsy light in a revelry night. Her life was well-planned; she knew exactly what she wanted and how to get it. Until her father intervened and flipped her life upside down by arranging her marriage to her best friend, Avino Acierno. She was certain she would never fall in love with him. She'd never marry him. But never... really? When she realizes as the night wears on and the tequila flows, that she's in deep shit because... she's falling in love with him.

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.