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.

Saige Eve Garcia believed she'd moved on from her college love, Ryder Craig Rivera, but now, with mounting medical bills and time running out, she feels desperate. It's a trade: give him a baby, and he'll give her the cash. *** Saige Eve Garcia believed she'd put her reckless college romance with Ryder Craig Rivera behind her. Now, with medical bills towering and time running out, Saige is desperate. Her sister's life depends on a miracle. Ryder, entangled with his girlfriend, who can't bear children, offers her one. His proposal is cruel in its simplicity: be the mother of my child, and I'll pay for your sister's surgery. No emotions. No attachments. Just her body, his conditions, and a timeline. But when old sparks ignite and boundaries blur between lust and longing, Saige finds herself tangled in more than just a contract. DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish. COVER DESIGN: Louise De Ramos

Rugged Series #3 Long dead soul in a living body. Sey Castellano will never be what her parents always want her to be. No matter how much she tries, she will never be like her twin brother, Fire, who's living up to his name, burning wildly and beautiful. Para sa kanya, bawat panibagong araw na dumarating ay bagong pagsubok para ipagpatuloy ang buhay. She loves her family. She loves her twin. 'Yon nga lang, unti-unti na siyang kinakain ng kalungkutan. It's getting harder for her to see why she still needs to continue existing. In the middle of struggling to live, she met someone who sparks bright light. It was very different in her dark world－it's keeping her distracted, yet attracted. Would he be the one to give her reasons to live or the one who will steal her few reasons left to hang on in life?

Rugged Series #2 Matayog. Mapangahas. Sing-taas ng mga bituin. Ganoon kung ilarawan ni Cascade Quinn Ruan ang kanyang pangarap. For her, it wasn't only a dream. It's the every blood that's flowing on her vessels. Ang musika ng kanyang kaluluwa. Ngunit hindi niya inaasahan na sa gitna pag-abot sa mga ito ay may kusang kakatok sa natutulog niyang puso. Sa isang iglap, she found herself contemplating, but the same time, suddenly complete. Pero paano kung sa hindi inaasahang pagkakataon ay konektado sila ng isang nakaraang naka-ukit sa kanilang pagkatao? Will she be willing to break just to keep him whole? Love and music made her whole. Two things that she never expected to collide. But also two things that will cut her to pieces making her great and tall tower of dreams collapse, missing and lost. Will she ever find it again? Or will it be lost forever?

Rugged Series #1 Chrysanthe Eve Lofranco only has Hezekiah Kingston Jimenez. She believes that life, no matter how hard, will always be bearable as long as she has him on her side. At dahil sa paniniwalang iyon ay pilit niyang ikinulong ang kanyang naghuhumiyaw at nagwawalang damdamin para sa kaibigan. Triggered by her past relationships with people around her and the fear of losing the only person left on her, she always steps away, every time. Because she would rather have him as her best friend than take another step forward and lose him forever. Paano nga ba niya mahahawakan ang isang pagmamahal sa kabila ng pira-piraso niyang pagkatao dulot ng nakaraan? How can she escape when every step she takes away leads her back to him... sweeter and closer?

Casa Fuego Series #5

[PUBLISHED UNDER LIBxWattpad] erps series #1 complete [unedited] 2# NBS Bestseller under Fiction Philippines Publication [July 2025] If only I knew, would things be different? And if only you knew, will things change? Celest Haeia Ybanez is tired of being the NBSB girl in her circle. Blame the academic workload, the fictional boys, the strict curfew created by her mother, and even the ones who told her they'll wait until she's in college-graduating na siya pero wala pa ring nagpaparamdam sa kan'ya. Idagdag pa na bugbog na bugbog na siya sa katyaw ng mga kaibigan at kamag-anak n'ya na tatanda siyang dalaga. She promised herself that she'll date someone in her last year in college. . .and there she meets Iscaleon Altreano, a meek Architecture student who's also graduating this school year. She had a plan upon seeing him. She knew that Iscaleon was way out of her league; kaya nag-offer siya na magpanggap si Iscaleon na boyfriend n'ya kahit hanggang sa graduation lang nila. For experience, for memories, and for her to have a memorable first boyfriend. Everything was fun. . .if only she knew how things can get hurt if things are bound to get real.

Childhoold friend, childhood sweetheart. All extant in childhood. Rashiela Eloise Labrador had a rough beginning to her teenage year. Betrayal destroyed her home and condemned her young perception of life. Despite her shattered belief and broken smithereens, Kielo Javier Montejano embraced the difficulty of pulling all the pieces of Rashiela, to make her whole again, to forget the past that kept on haunting her throughout. But just when each segment is in the right place, here come storms that shatter both of them. Kielo fell in love with someone else. At the same time, Rashiela just recently found out that she is pregnant with their child. Will co-parenting be enough, or will Rashiela do everything to have her Kielo back?

This book is published under IMMAC PPH (Magnates Series #1) Being an heiress to a wealthy family, political marriage is one way to prolong the Pontevera's legacy. But Ishina Astrid Pontevera chooses to live independently without all the privileges, aiming to prove that she could lead their company without being married off to a business magnate. Gusto niya matutong tumayo sa sariling paa niya at panindigan na hindi niya kailangang magpakasal para mapatunayan ang sarili niya. She then met a hardworking man, Daxel Kieran Velarde who does part-time jobs, earning for living. Both people trying to break the barriers that they think hinders them. What would happen if they continuously meet unexpectedly?