WATTY'S SHORTLIST 2021 EDITOR'S PICK OCTOBER 2021 Jiya Valle learns too late that kissing her sworn enemy since high school Migo Salas doesn't come without repercussions. And to her, it's a secret she's going to bring with her down to her grave--but Migo has other plans. DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish.

Isla de Vista Series #4 Sky, ah! What a beautiful sky. Chased by many, loved by many, wanted by many, but chasing someone as cold as the snow and as hard as stone. She rides the fleet to the sky, thinking she could reach the moon but it's too far, too far. "I was busy reaching you that I forgot I am falling in my own despair."

Longing for peace in Isla de Vista, Amber is dragged back to the city when her father demands she marry a rich, dumb man to secure their business. But the moment she meets Elijah Buenavista-the "dummy" her father mocks-she realizes he's hiding secrets her family never saw coming. *** Isla de Vista's peaceful shoreline seemed to free Amber Paige Valencia from her father's demands. Yet peace never lasts. After being summoned back to the city, she is forced into an arranged marriage with a Buenavista, Elijah Luis, whom everyone calls a dumb heir. Amber anticipates a dummy. Instead, she meets a handsome, commanding man who's far too self-assured to be the dumb man her father mocks. And once the vows are spoken, the truth begins to unravel. Elijah Luis Buenavista is no simple rich boy. He is the youngest general in history, a strategist who battled in secret and planned their marriage for reasons only he knows. Will Amber embrace his deadly secrets or will loving him put her in greater danger than she thought? DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish. COVER DESIGN: Louise De Ramos

Imagine this. You are treated for once, generously by your client. You are hypnotised by him, though you know that you don't stand a chance with him. Yet somehow, you are found in his room and in his bed, wee bit naked. You are very well aware that you fucked that very handsome and enticing man. But now, he has disappeared into thin air. Leaving you with, thousand dollars and his child. The same very incident happened with Katherine Jones. But her life turns downhill after that night. And now five years later, the gorgeous man is back. Cliche? Not quite. -COMPLETED- Also a huge thanks to Erzastone528 and GeorgiaJ429 for making amazing covers for this book! They would be uploaded soon. Highest rank: #6 in Romance (Thank you to all my readers for this!)

From greatness to being unknown. Augustina Coleen Lorenzo survived from a car accident, but the damage it brought is to forget her memories. Meeting Lourde Reagan Laxamana, her childhood best friend again brought back the feelings of what she had for him when they were young until med school. This time she has the courage to confess to him. To show him the love that comes from her calamitous heart. As she remembers the details of her life, it starts to unfold the truth about what happened to her. Her vulnerability. Her Indecisiveness. How she identifies the meaning of life during the years in medical school and to walk in the midst of uncertainty and fear in order to navigate one's purpose as a doctor. And how she realizes that the world that she has been chasing most of her life from other people will only be found in her fingertips. And the love that she seeks comes from the one who stayed during the struggling hours of her life. START: FEBRUARY 22, 2025 END: JUNE 24, 2025

Life is heavy, especially when you live on the surface of poverty. A nursing student from PLM, Keanah Amorsolo always pushed herself to study and to work harder just to make a difference in the life that she is living in the slums of Tondo. Meeting the most annoying medical student from UP Manila, Jovanni Villareal, is not part of her busy life, especially since he is only determined to piss her off. She did not know that he could introduce her to the other face of life and color it with his ecstatic personality and humor that echoed laughter in her chest. He became an escape for her. Those little hopes she wishes came true with one person. Him. How short-lived moments with her made life for him. How his perceptions of earthly things changed in the eyes of humanity. To love requires sacrificing a part of yourself, but still, it's worth it because it's love at the end of the day. But how can she continue to live when situations have buried her to the ground of chaos and disparity? She tried to scream for help, but only the ground could hear her. And him? He is busy saving his patients lives. START: OCTOBER 31, 2024 END: FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Brain. Tumor. Med school. Yogurt. Kisses and dreams. Navigating the spectrum of human conditions and returning memories from medical school. Calista Lavinia Laxamana stuck to the rules of progress she set for herself over the years. Because of medical negligence, she needed to accept her parents decision to marry a man that she did not know and met in the past. In the chaos of her mind and reality, she cannot feel anything, especially when the person she thought would be there for her turns back and left her in the abyss of hardships. He left her to deal with a marriage she had not appreciated in the first place. To be foreign in the journey without him. Yet, in the bliss of the breakdowns, Theodore Nathaniel D'aureville gave life to her dull, ambitious life, introducing her to the real art of medicine. START: JUNE 3, 2024 END: AUGUST 30, 2024

Trinity Anne Limson sees every circumstances as calamities to her desire to just do nothing in life. Maging doktor? Hindi niya nakikita ang sarili niya d'yan. Her only driving force to stay in their competitive med program is to meet her mother's high expectations. But in the midst of the uncertainty of failure and peer pressure to make their lives easy, she was forced to be friends with the smart-nerdy guy from their department, Basil Dhin Azares, who is a third year student. The goal is to get something from him and yet he guide her to experienced med school in exciting way. She trusts him like a prayer. Ngunit tama ba na mag mahal nang sobra? Higit sa lahat... Ibigay ang parte ng iyong sarili hanggang sa maubos ka. Maniwala ka sa kanya at malaman mo ang bawat sikreto sa likod ng isang pangarap na maging doktor. That's one way to kill yourself. Maybe the storm will never be calm when life turns into a circus. START: JUNE 25, 2023 END: NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Vanessa Valencia Cervantes, a disaster-certified structural engineer, has spent her life building unshakable foundations-both in her career and her heart. ​ She doesn't need love, and she certainly doesn't need anyone telling her what she's missing. ​ But when an earthquake traps her with Celine Amarante Lucero, a sharp-tongued criminal defense attorney who wears confidence like armor, everything changes. ​ Four days under a broken ceiling turn survival into intimacy, and touch into vows neither of them expected. ​ Now, they're no longer just survivors-they're each other's only case. ​ Objection: Mine. ​ No hearings. No appeals. ​ Just one final ruling-she's hers.

Written in Taglish • Slow-burn troupe • Haciendera x CEO