STATUS: COMPLETE ⤷Highest Rank: #2 in Teen Fiction ⤷The Wattys 2025 Shortlisted Growing up always being ridiculed for her mother's night job, Sarisa Ophelia Aloria was determined to prove everyone wrong by becoming the top of her class and graduating with the highest grades possible. But her dreams slowly shattered when Marx Gian Hernandez, the school principal's son, became her classmate in highschool. Always being second to Marx, Sarisa was determined to steal the top spot before graduation comes--even staging a public love confession and pretend to have a crush on the one person she hated just to distract him. What started as a facade fueled by hate, was watered down with something Sarisa didn't even expect as she got to know Marx beyond being her academic rival. In a game of tug of war with your feelings, will it be possible to win when in the first place, you already lost?

Peñablanca Series #2: Rebel Hearts "Go, rebel on me, love." Young, wild and rebellious, Revelia, entirely lived with the belief of celebrating her youth. Proud to be from Section D, siya at ang mga kaibigan niya'y kilabot ng mga teacher at suki ng guidance office. However, Revel and her friends might be fearless but were alarmed by the presence of someone threatening to end it. The student model, smart, strict, and handsome SSG President, Damon Louis Montezides. One Valentine's Day, the friends fooled around and sent a fake confession letter para kay Revel mula raw kay Damon at doon na nagsimula ang lahat. Circumstances happened, with secrets to be spilled if Damon didn't play along with the scheme, he obliged. Revel and Damon pretended to be together until the feelings got deeper and real but aside from their young love, dreams came along and started to shake the two. Would they choose dreams for a greater future ahead or will it end up in vain? For her heart chooses this young, foolish, and rebellious love?

If a gay man falls for a woman, does it change who he is or just what he feels? Alam na ni Elion Derett "Eli" Lascano kung sino siya at kung ano ang laging tinitibok ng puso niya. Mas gusto niya ang lalaki, iyon ang akala niya. Ngunit isang hindi inaasahang koneksyon ang dumating, isang damdaming hindi tugma sa lahat ng kaniyang pinaniwalaan tungkol sa sarili. It came in the form of Savanya Arteaga, the woman who made him question everything he thought he knew about himself. First Book of Vexed Men Series. Single Point of View. Started: FEB - 08 - 2025 Ended: MAR - 01 - 2025 [REVISED]

Yvonne Maica Lim is an aspiring UAAP court side reporter for UST, she was so close to getting her football player crush after plotting on him for almost a year...but everything fell apart when she had to fake date the infamous star basketball player of the UST Growling Tigers instead. Book cover by cottonbro studio in pexels

[COMPLETED] Veronika Elvera Higuera decided to be independent at an early age. She does not waste time to provide for their needs that she forgets that she... was also in her youth too. But when a nerdy, handsome, innocent looking and rich guy entered her life, things started to spin around. She experienced happiness in their own time... but until when? When life threw her dream right in front of her face... can she let go of it and choose them? Him? Or, did she even try to choose him in the first place? That Juan Time Stopped - Intro: To the Dreams of my Youth a Series [Thesis/Special Project] raindropsandstar

~~my entry to the friends-to-lovers- trope/cliche~~ GENRE: Erotic Romance (M/F) LANGUAGE: Taglish ( sprinkled with Hiligaynon and Akeanon dialogues) DISCLAIMER: This work is for MATURE ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. It contains substantial sexually explicit scenes between two consenting fictional characters of legal age (under Philippine laws). Some readers might find the graphic descriptions of sexual acts and highly sexualized dialogues offensive. Thus, reader discretion is advised which means that when you read this work, you (yes, dear reader, you) made a conscious decision to consume material content of a sexual nature. You chose to read this. No one forced you. Then again, there is HEA to be enjoyed. So, enjoy! ***** Date Started: June 9, 2021 Date Finished: September 27, 2022 Date Reached 1M Reads: December 1, 2023 Date Edited for Publishing: February 1, 2024

He is trouble incarnate. While she's a studious, well-mannered student, he's a delinquent who gets tangled up in all sorts of problems. They are completely opposite... yet unexpectedly ended up in some kind of weird "secret" relationship. South Boys #4 JFSTORIES

Karaminah Viel Trajano has always been told that she's... peculiar. She just doesn't like the things that girls her age are expected to like. But she loves writing... that's probably the only normal thing about her. Problem is, her parents do not support her 'career' of choice. For them, it's nothing more than a hobby. It's either she follows their steps and become a lawyer or become a lawyer. She chose neither. Now, she's forced to work to make a living. But she's not really made for work. Given the choice, she'd spend the day daydreaming about her scripts and characters. Fortunately, someone offered her a job... Madali lang naman daw ito. Magiging 'manager' daw siya ng basketball team. She agreed... After all, how hard could it be to manage a bunch of boys who spend their days running back and forth on a wooden ground... right?

Mara Torrefranca Buenaventura is one of the "deadliest" girl in her clan. She wears innocence as a mask that hides her wickedness and ruthlessness behind an angelic facade. She's the karma of those people who hurt her first. But one heartbreak would turn all her beliefs against her making her life miserable-chained to her past and ruled by guilt. A prisoner of her own misery. But will a man she viewed as the villain in her life be enough to bend her morals and make her feel what real love is?

Reincarnated as the Seventh Princess Book 1 Genre: Fantasy | Romance | Action | Language: Filipino Yvonne was once a ruthless and sharp-tongued businesswoman feared by many. Powerful, ambitious, and unapologetically savage, she believed she had everything under control, until the two people she trusted most, her lover and her own sister, betrayed and murdered her in cold blood. But death was not the end of her story. Yvonne awakens in another world as Princess Eliana Soleil Eurydice Agrigent, the forgotten seventh princess of the Kingdom of Cymopoleia. Frail, timid, and born without magical abilities, Eliana spent her entire life suffering beneath the shadow of discrimination, cruelty, and neglect. Mocked by society and treated as worthless even within her own family, she was nothing more than a powerless princess waiting to be discarded. But the moment Yvonne takes over Eliana's body, everything begins to change. Gone is the weak and obedient princess everyone once knew. In her place stands a cunning, fearless, and dangerously intelligent woman determined to survive in a world that wants her broken. Armed with the memories of her past life and a personality sharp enough to challenge nobles and royals alike, Yvonne refuses to remain powerless ever again. As she slowly uncovers the dark truths hidden within the royal family, Yvonne becomes entangled in conspiracies, political conflicts, and the mysterious death of Eliana's mother. In a kingdom where women are silenced and treated as inferior, she vows to fight against the corruption of their society, protect the people she learns to cherish, and reclaim the dignity stolen from the seventh princess. But in a world filled with secrets, magic, and dangerous enemies, can Yvonne truly rewrite Eliana's tragic fate? Will she finally find the love, friendship, and happiness she never received in her previous life? Or will the truth behind Eliana's existence destroy everything she is trying to protect?