2025 GEMS
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Where Our Love Lies (Cliché) by ynativity
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Their only child is getting married soon, which means that Tanya and Aga will be forced to bear each other's presence again after 19 years of separation. With their daughter running away to the province out of frustration to get them along with each other, Tanya and Aga are forced to call a truce. Stuck together for a month in search for their only child, will they stumble upon something more? Cliche Series WHERE OUR LOVE LIES ynativity, 2021 Cover Art by Jiselle
Staged Hearts: Only Yours by MgnCara
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Growing up together, Luciana Raphaella Tiongson believed her friendship with her best friend would last for a lifetime. Until she needed to move and they simply grew apart. She tried her best to hold on, but the connection she treasured was already severed to shreds. There was nothing left to do but to let him go. Raffie continued to live on with projects after projects when she received the best offer she could ever imagine. It was a complete three-sixty with Raffie going back to where her dreams started. In her old bedroom with her childhood best friend inside a makeshift fort, watching films together with honey-dipped popcorns. Until the severed pieces became whole again, making her remember how everything used be. With only her and him and no one else in between. Only Yours - an epistolary novel Completed (2025).
The Princess of Manila by liadeflores
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(Pearl Palace Series #1) [18+] Georgina Aldana was never meant for crowns. Yet fate pushed her into them, making her a princess and the wife of the man she once vowed to despise: Juan Miguel de Loyola, the Prince of Manila. Behind marble walls and glittering smiles, loyalty is an illusion. Whispers rot the air. Friends turn into spies. And the prince she married carries a past scarred with lies, loss, and a woman whose name still lives on his lips. Still, Georgina finds herself pulled toward him. His mind. His fire. The strange tenderness he hides when no one is watching. But the past bleeds through the present. When old crimes rise again, Georgina must ask herself one question. Does he love her, or is she mistaking love for something else? DISCLAIMER: The story is written in Taglish. WARNING: MATURE CONTENT | R-18 COVER DESIGN: Yours truly
Words Written in Water (Loser #3) by inksteady
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THE LOSERS' CLUB SERIES 3 In need of juicy news for her online publication, the struggling journalism student, Millicent Rae Velasco, was forced to interview the intimidating student council president of their university, Juancho Alas Montero. But, not wanting to be the subject of rumors, he rejected her instantly. So, paano siya? Paano ang last requirement niya bago maka-graduate? Si Juancho ang iniatas sa kanya ng isinusumpa niyang prof na gawan ng profile article! Isa pa, dito na lang siya makakabawi! Kailangan niya pang higitin mula sa dulo ng impyerno ang grades niya! Being in a hopeless predicament, she ended up chasing after him. She hid behind the bookshelves where he was studying, memorized his schedule by heart, and talked to him straight on when she could. She only had one goal---write an article about him. Nothing more, nothing less. But life had a lot of things in store for her. Because through the glances she'd stolen, she picked up the sharp fragments of his life. Through the hidden smiles, she unraveled the content of his heart. And through the pages she'd written, she caught herself falling in love with him.
Shelter in a Storm (Elyu Series #2) by hanmariam
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ELYU SERIES #2 The storms in San Juan, La Union are ruthless and tempestuous. Driven by her traumatic past, Avery Felicia Perez turned her heart into a stone to shelter it from further pain. She contented herself to bear witness of other people's fairytale love stories until a boy decided to break her barriers and pursue her... A tale of young love that started in high school. The years that followed proved that their love is one for the books. But while one is chasing his passion tirelessly, one is falling behind and slowly... falling apart. Until one day, you have to choose between chasing your dreams and being with the one that you love. No one ever told her that this life is a big storm, and she needs to find her shelter. Or be one, for all that matter...
Drifting with the Waves (Elyu Series #1) by hanmariam
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ELYU SERIES #1 In the sleepy town of San Juan, La Union, the waves are unrelenting. Sereia Montanez leads a quiet life with no desire to rule the waves until a boy from Manila arrived and changed everything... This is a story about a girl, a boy, and an ocean between them.
Act Off Script | ✓ by alluringli
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stand alone complete [unedited] To quote someone, no one can teach you how to write-because life is the one who would teach you how to pen the beginning, climax, and end of your story-but what if you don't like how life writes it? Athanacia Norainne Samonte only has one goal in life-to write until she's out of breath. She loves writing, as much as how the sun always shine after the night has fallen back to slumber. Kaya naman nang makita ang oportunidad na maging script writer ng isang student director na si Kiran Conjuanco-she did her best to be the only option that Kiran could consider. He was her stimulus to write better so he could only set his eyes on her written crafts. Yet, writing was never easy. In this economy, she has a lot to consider when it comes to pursuing passion over practicality. She has to brace herself from the criticisms that barks and bites her whenever they can. She has to see that she's never going to be the best writer-because there will always be someone who writes better. She has to accept that sometimes writing. . .isn't just writing. When life gives her a script that should have been shelved, can Nacia act off script from this film turning into tragedy?