“You chose the hard life, I chose to love you.”  Ara Loraine “Rayne” Yen-Sia has everything. Luke JoPierre Zamora Cariño has her heart. And he chose to break it. She chose to run away from everything. She’d moved on and he’s still stuck.  “Bakit mo kailangang mag-move on, when it was you who first let go?”

Nerdy Dakota Evans makes the biggest mistake of her life by falling in love with her best friend, Aaron Ford. Despite coming from entirely different cliques in school, will their relationship have a chance? *** In a high school where everyone belongs to cliques, nerdy and boyish Dakota Evans' friendship with basketball jock, Aaron Ford, becomes a big issue. Aaron's highly protective of Dakota and doesn't realize that she's in love with him. With their friendship eventually going on the rocks, will Aaron finally realize his true feelings for Dakota before it's too late? [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]]

Language: Filipino Started in July 2011 | Finished in December 2011 Published in English for paperback (Pop Fiction, 2013) Adapted in Indonesian for paperback (Penerbit Haru, 2016 & 2018) Blurb: Phoebe Bernal shares a secret with one of the biggest stars in the country, Kent Fuentabella. Their secret? They've been secretly married. Of course, no one can know. That's Kent Fuentabella, for goodness' sake, a star so famous that even the tiniest move he makes can create Twitter trends worldwide. Phoebe has known Kent since he was a gangly nobody, but she doesn't even know how they feel about each other. But just when she's trying to sort out her feelings for moody and unpredictable Kent, here comes Harley Villaluz, Kent's biggest rival, who's determined to sweep Phoebe off her feet. Then there's also Elisa, Kent's onscreen love interest, who's determined to take their romance off-screen. Oh, what's a secretly married girl to do - when the country's biggest celebrities suddenly find themselves entangled with her life?

Tagalog/English [PUBLISHED UNDER POP FICTION - 2017]

"I was made to break your heart" If someone tells you this line. What will you do? Will you still fall for the person who never wanted you to be happy? Will you still choose her to handle your heart with care ? read now.

PROLOGUE It started with a F L A M E S followed by H O P E and end up with C A M E L