MANIPULATION SERIES 1 OBSESSION & DARK ROMANCE Marco De Luca doesn't believe in love-only possession. Marco is rich, powerful-and deeply unstable. The moment he sees Myrina, he decides she must be his. But Myrina Cabral has a boyfriend and a normal life-things Marco sees as obstacles. He starts watching her, following her every move. Anyone who tries to keep her away from him starts to disappear. People lose their jobs. Secrets are exposed. Accidents happen. One by one, Marco destroys anything that stands between them. To Myrina, he seems like a helpful stranger. Kind. Caring. But behind the mask, he's pulling every string, breaking her world apart piece by piece-until she has no one left but him. He calls it love. But it's obsession.

MANIPULATION SERIES 2 LURE AND DARK ROMANCE Enzo Luther Ferrante doesn't hunt. He lures. And Dra. Cristina Ynez Sambal walked straight into his world without ever realizing she'd been chosen. He didn't touch her. Not at first. He didn't need to. Just a glance, a well-placed word, a silence that said more than most men ever could. It was enough to pull her in-slowly, sweetly, like drowning in warm water. But Enzo is no lover. He's a predator in silk. A master of patience. And Cristina, for all her fire, never saw the cage being built around her heart. Because Enzo doesn't want her heart. He just wanted to feed his ego. He wants her completely-mind, body, and soul. And once he has you, he never lets go.

Calvin Donatello believes his childhood friend loves him. She always has-he's sure of it. The way she once laughed at his jokes, the way she looked and cared at him... that wasn't nothing. That was real. Even now, with Coreen Ignacio living a life that doesn't include him, he tells himself she's just lost. Confused. Waiting to remember what they had. That deep down, she's waiting for him to pull her back. But the line between devotion and delusion is razor-thin. As Calvin's grip on reality begins to blur, he weaves a love story only he can see-one where every sign is a message, every silence a promise. And when Coreen doesn't return his love, the truth becomes too painful to face. Because sometimes the most dangerous love is the one that exists only in our mind.

Julius Severian doesn't beg. He bleeds. With trembling hands and a shattered voice, he paints himself as the man she broke-the loyal one, the wounded one, the one who only ever loved her. But every tear is calculated. Every silence is sharp. He doesn't want her forgiveness. He wants her guilt. Her surrender. And Hannah Evangeline doesn't see the trap not until she's kneeling beside the man who twisted his pain into a weapon. And made her believe she was the one who pulled the trigger.

Adrian Velazco never hurt Cathy Ordoñez-not in ways anyone could see. He didn't need fists when words could scar deeper. Every time she pulled away, he said she was cold. Every time she cried, he said she was crazy. And when she finally spoke up, he made her feel like she ruined everything. "You pushed me to this, Cathy. You always do." That was his power-twisting pain into proof, turning her reactions into weapons against her. While she carried the weight of his wrongs, he walked away clean-wearing the mask of the man who "tried." But the worst betrayal wasn't his lies. It was how easily she believed them and how she was shackled by her mind.

He promised her forever wrapped in silk words. A life by the sea, a house filled with laughter, mornings where she'd never wake up alone again. But none of it was real. Every plan was a leash. Every sweet promise is a cage. And the more she clung to the future he painted, the more she lost her grip on the present. He never intended to build anything-only to keep her waiting, hoping, staying. Because Felix didn't love her. He loved being adored. He fed off the light in her eyes every time he lied with a smile. And by the time Cecile saw the truth, she wasn't in love. She was trapped in a dream that was never hers to begin with.

Dominic Castellano and Yllana Montecordova. In the city's underworld, Dominic is feared as a ruthless mafia-but what no one knows is how far his obsession with Yllana runs. He's been watching her for months: learning her routines, the places she visits, the people she trusts. And now, with jealousy and obsession burning through him, Dominic is ready to claim the one thing he's built his empire around-her, Yllana Montecordova.