Dr. Dayanara Scott, now Larralde, spent years working herself to exhaustion just to keep the lights on while her husband gambled away their savings and their marriage. When it finally ended, she walked away free but hollow. She left her prestigious career in Pittsburgh for a teaching job in the Philippines, hoping to rebuild her bond with her daughter and find peace. While she works on winning her daughter back, a boy named Matveyo Zimnyakov, a lazy, unmotivated, and a repeat who can't even explain a covalent bond ends up in her class. When she catches him cheating, she has no choice but to call his father. Men with guns surrounded her office before Isaak Zimnyakov walked in. Tall, broad shoulders beneath a black dress shirt, tattoos peeking through his collar, dark blue eyes that hold no mercy. The kind of man who looks like sin and moves like power. That moment, she knew he was trouble, and she was not wrong. He tried to pay her off to pass his son. She told him to fuck off. From that day, she knew she had stepped into something dangerous. He left, but something about him lingers, a current she cannot ground no matter how hard she tries. Now, her daughter is growing close to Matveyo. Isaak keeps appearing where he shouldn't, obsessed and possessive, and he doesn't bother to hide it from her. And Dayanara can feel it every time they're in the same room. The pull. Equal and opposite. Inevitable. A dipole. She teaches it in theory. But Dayanara is about to learn firsthand that the most dangerous chemistry doesn't exist in the lab. It exists between two people who should never touch.

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.

For someone like Attorney Kimberly Jane Wencezlao, reputation is important, and involvement with a younger man in her class, especially Elijah Pierceton, is a secret she has to hide. *** "A respected professor at Saigon University and a defense attorney, Attorney Kimberly Jane Wencezlao has built her life on control, discipline, and reputation. Every move is calculated, every boundary firmly in place . . . until Elijah Pierceton. Best on the field and self-assured in the class, Elijah is everything she should avoid--a smug athlete, her student, and the one man who refuses to be intimidated by her authority. He's a risk she can't afford. And yet, with him, she feels something dangerously close to freedom. When everything is on the line, is disobedience worth losing it all?" DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish. COVER DESIGN: Rayne Mariano

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