It's really hard falling in love with your best friend, right? That's what Ysmael Tyler Orseo believes. Every time he wants to confess his feelings to his best friend, Amari Serene Bormeo, something is holding him back-his mind is filled with what ifs and fear. They grew up together. They laughed together. But will fate really let them end up together? or will fear stop him from even trying?

Elara Celine Monteza, a Grade 12-HUMSS student, who always thought that she could handle her world alone. But one quiet night when she was in the garden, as her tears streamed down on her face, she never expected someone would notice her pain. Elizer Kyle Alvarez, a Grade 12-STEM student, handed her a simple handkerchief-and in that small gesture, Elara found a strange sense of comfort. Both of them carried wounds that no one could ever see, scars that made them break into pieces. Yet, as they shared stories, laughter, and moments under the stars, they realized healing begins in the most unexpected place and the most unexpected people. Two stranger. One chance encounter. Can two broken souls find light in each other's darkest nights-before the world pulls them apart? And if they get lost in the dark, can they ever find light again?

(SOON TO BE PUBLISHED UNDER CPPH) Lavina Elise Rivera, a senior high school student, is an academic achiever who fears failure more than anything else. Her only goal is to graduate with a medal in her hands - nothing more, nothing less. But everything changes when she meets Lucien Eros Castellan, the charming heartthrob, cold, quiet and "boy at the back seat" in San Rafael National High School. They became classmates and started developing unexpected feelings they never thought they would feel - especially Lavina, whose only priority had always been her studies. But when fate began to test them, love wasn't as easy as solving equations or passing exams. Years later, when they meet again, one question remains - can love that once ended find its way back? Are the seats still the same? Are the feelings still there? And will it be forever this time?

Blood made the first promise. Revenge remembered the rest. Anastasia Volkov was raised to be obedient. Silent. Intelligent. Untouchable. As the daughter of a powerful Russian Bratva king, she understood that loyalty was currency and love was measured in control. When her father arranges her marriage to an Italian enforcer she has never met, Anastasia accepts her fate without protest. She doesn't know she's walking into a lie that began long before she was born. Matteo De Luca is ruthless, cold, and carved from discipline. As the enforcer for his family, he has spent his life turning violence into obedience. Marrying Anastasia is not a choice. It's a command. A necessary step in a plan built on patience, blood, and revenge. He was never meant to want her. She was never meant to matter. But in the quiet spaces between duty and desire, something dangerous begins to grow. A slow burn. A fracture. A bond neither of them planned for. Because the past hasn't been forgiven. It has only been waiting. And blood... always remembers. A dark mafia romance featuring an arranged marriage, slow-burn obsession, morally gray characters, and a love story forged in secrets, loyalty, and revenge. ✨Book One✨

Raph is 17. He's the quintessential teenager; he's in his final year-it's the year of the bac. And like all teenagers, he has a crush, but unfortunately it's not reciprocated. Laughter corrects morals, so how could one correct love? Is it possible to learn to love? I believe so. Ralph knows it; he will learn that love has no predetermined path, that it lets itself be carried by life. Forget the conventions and the dogmas we've built around love, flirting, and seduction. Because all of that is false - it's what I learned by loving you... Volume 1 ⏳

epistolary Vivienne Castellano x Xavier Adam Fernandez

she knows that he isn't a saint who loves her. Still stays and waits for him because she is not a saint either. "strawberries and cigarettes"

Rich and spoiled Samantha Astor has dreamed of becoming a music artist since she was a little girl, and finally it is time for that dream to become real. Only problem is that the music critic she sent her music to doesn't like her singing. Luckily, she got a hold of the review before it was published. Unluckily, she can't get a hold of the critic to convince him to change it. With no other option available to her, she decides to kidnap the critic. But instead of the critic, she accidentally kidnaps a mafia boss. ----- Mature rating due to crude language. Other warnings include toxic/abuse relationship (not between FL and ML, though their relationship might not become the healthiest), and there will be a dose of Stockholm syndrome There won't be any sexually explicit scene, though sex might be a conversation topic in the story