Atty. Kimberly Jane Wencezlao is a successful Defense Attorney and a Political Science Professor at Saigon University. Everything in her life runs on order. Her days move on a perfect schedule, her meals are measured, her workouts never skipped. Her work ethic is rigid, earning her respect in the courtrooms and fear in the lecture hall. Her rare smile appears only when the cameras do, because she is the only daughter of the honorable Judge Holt Wencezlao. The two things that matter most to her are being the best and being her father's perfect daughter. She has always done as he says, even dating the man her father approved for her, though deep inside she knew he was not the one. She believed this was the life she was meant to live-until Elijah Pierceton walked into her lecture hall and threatened to ruin the order she built. Elijah is everything her father warned her about since she was a girl. A student-athlete, tall and infuriating, with a chiseled jaw, lips that curl into a dangerous smirk, and hazel eyes that strip her bare every time he looks at her. Unapologetic. He pushes her buttons on purpose, tempting her to cross the rules that shaped her life. He is her student. Years younger. A glaring red warning sign. She should not like it. She should slap him for how he makes her feel. But damn it, he awakens a part of her she thought had dried up long ago. And his wicked ways make her wonder if, for the very first time in her life, disobedience might be worth it.

Caelan is out for revenge, determined to ruin Everleigh's life after her affair with his father. But hate is a dangerous emotion . . . and he finds himself craving Everleigh far more than he should. *** Everleigh Palma's life was ruined after she got involved with a married man. Branded as a homewrecker, she buried her past and built a new life as a creative writing professor at a private international school. But she can't get away that easily with her past. Caelan Viglianco is consumed by vengeance, determined to shatter her world after her affair with his father. Yet hatred proves dangerously intoxicating, because the more he despises her, the more he craves her, with a desire far stronger than he ever intended. DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish. COVER DESIGN: Rayne Mariano

Larkin, a gorgeous and sweet twenty-something, has dedicated her world-class talent in computers and technology to helping good criminals disappear and catching the worst of them on the dark web. Despite witnessing the filth of humanity in the underground world, she still sees the glass as half-full, dresses in bright colors, and seems like someone untouched by cruelty. She was perfectly content hiding in the shadows and taking down sickos from behind her screen-until she crossed paths with Simon Lucas G. Jonas, a super tall, hunky, and devastatingly handsome tech CEO. From the moment she saw him, she knew he was her type. If she were a computer keyboard, she would've gladly let him stick his flash drive into her USB port. Hoping to impress him (and maybe snag his attention), she decided to break into his supposedly hack-proof, fortress-like cyber wall. She succeeded-earning her ultimate crush's attention... but also his burning hatred. Now he won't touch her with a ten-foot pole, avoids her like the plague, and looks at her as if she's gum stuck to the bottom of his shoe. Her charm and cuteness? Completely wasted on him. Larkin thought she'd cracked every code in the world. Turns out, she's still struggling with the hardest one yet: The Code To His Heart

Katrina Isobel's home might look decent from the outside but it has been a series of broken in the inside. She became a rebellious teenager as a result of this. She has been dubbed as the family's disgrace by a high-functioning raging alcoholic father. When her father decided to bring home a woman who then acted like Cinderella's evil stepmother, she had enough. At eighteen she moved away from home. She moved thousands of miles away to escape and try to find a better life. Fifteen years later, she is now a successful Emergency Physician. One day, her estranged sister had decided to give her a call and told her that their father passed away and that she needed to go back to Guam for his funeral. Later on, Katrina decided that she will stay because she wanted to reconcile with her sister as she's her only family. She is determined to stay out of trouble this time and focus on healing and putting back what she has left with her sisters. Everything is going in her favor. She's settling well in her new job at the nearby hospital. She's now closer than ever to her nephews who she adores. She has a nice condo by the beach, where her nephew, Theodore likes to stay after school. Until one day, Theodore brought his twenty-one year old best friend, Mason, who was supposed to hangout with Theo, but instead, Mason had snuck into Katrina's bedroom.