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Velvet Scars by InexorableSerene
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WARNING: 🔞 Seven years of work gave Kaevra Nysera Biancardi the career she had always dreamed of, yet success could never fill the quiet emptiness waiting for her at the end of each day. On a whim, she downloaded a dating app and met a man known only as Carneige, a stranger with no photograph, no real name, and no past he was willing to reveal. Somehow, behind the anonymity, he understood her in ways no one else ever had. As weeks slipped into months, their late-night conversations became the one part of her day she never wanted to end. The more she learned about him, the more mysterious he became, answering every question with just enough truth to keep her close while guarding the rest behind silence. She knew almost nothing about the man who had quietly found a place in her heart. Everything changed when a single message appeared on her screen. "Come see me." A plane ticket followed, along with enough money to make the journey. Every instinct told her to walk away from a man she had never truly known, yet she chose him anyway, unaware that some secrets are impossible to outrun and some strangers leave scars that last long after love has gone.
Brushstrokes Across Bahrain by InexorableSerene
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Akala ni Leandreigh Baltazar na isang plane ticket lang ang pagitan niya sa pangarap. But one wrong decision leaves her stranded in Bahrain, alone, with no one to turn to and nothing but her talent for painting to help her survive. Then fate leads her to a man whose world is shrouded in secrets and silence, someone far more dangerous and complicated than he first appears. Isang estranghero. Isang pintor. Isang bansang hindi nila inaasahang magiging simula ng lahat. In a place where trust is fragile and every encounter hides another layer of truth, Leandreigh is about to discover that not all masterpieces are painted on canvas. Some are written by destiny, one brushstroke at a time.
Every Clue Leads To You by InexorableSerene
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Twelve years after her best friend vanished without a trace, detective lawyer Savara Alejandro is assigned to a missing girl case that bears the same chilling symbols from the one mystery she never solved. As her investigation leads her into a hidden world of abducted children, secret organizations, and a notorious killer known as The Painted Gentleman, Savara begins to question everything she believed, including one terrifying possibility... what if the person she's spent twelve years searching for was never the victim, but the most dangerous part of the story?
Escaping Blackwell by InexorableSerene
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"You can run from my house, wife, but not from my name." Sa loob ng anim na taon, namuhay si Aveline Laurent bilang perpektong asawa ng bilyonaryong si Theron Blackwell, habang palihim na ikinukubli ang sakit at takot sa likod ng marangyang buhay na kinaiinggitan ng lahat. To the world, they were the picture of a perfect marriage. Behind closed doors, however, their home was a gilded prison ruled by a man who believed love meant possession and obedience meant loyalty. But everything changes the night Aveline discovers she's pregnant. With her unborn child and a bag of stolen documents capable of destroying Theron's empire, she escapes before dawn, leaving behind her wedding ring, his mansion, and the life that nearly broke her. Now hunted by private investigators and watched through an invisible web of power and surveillance, Aveline realizes she is no longer just a runaway wife. She is the only woman who can bring down one of the world's most powerful men. And Theron Blackwell will burn everything to the ground before he lets her disappear forever.
His Favorite Sin Wore Scrubs by InexorableSerene
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Registered Nurse si Seravina "Avi" Valez. Board passer. Government hospital nurse. Iyong klaseng nurse na kahit nanginginig na ang katawan sa pagod, tumatakbo pa rin kapag may code blue sa kabilang ward. By daylight, she survives beneath fluorescent hospital lights and overcrowded hallways, catching lives the system keeps failing, double shifts, delayed salary, and endless exhaustion. Pero araw-araw pa rin niyang isinusuot ang scrubs niya na parang sapat pa ang pag-asa para bumangon ulit. But at night, she becomes Sinn. Babaeng sumasayaw sa ilalim ng pulang ilaw ng Velvet Room habang umuulan ng pera mula sa mga lalaking kayang bumili ng isang gabi pero hindi ng totoong koneksyon. Hindi niya ikinahihiya ang katawan niya. What ashamed her was the country that turned being a nurse into a survival job. Antonio Luis Aguinaldo never cared about women dancing beneath neon lights. Bilang tagapagmana ng isang bilyonaryong pamilya, sanay siyang mabuhay sa mundong hindi kailanman nagturo sa kaniya kung ano ang tunay na pagod. Pero isang gabi, habang walang interes na nakatanaw mula sa second floor balcony ng Velvet Room, nakita niya si Sinn. Hindi ito ang pinakamaganda. Hindi rin ang pinakamaingay gumalaw. Pero habang lahat ay sumasayaw para mapansin, siya lang ang mukhang unti-unting nauubos sa ilalim ng ilaw. At hindi niya maintindihan kung bakit, pero matapos no'n, hindi na niya magawang tumigil sa paghahanap sa babaeng mukhang pagod nang mabuhay pero patuloy pa ring sumasayaw para mabuhay.
Juan, My Commander by InexorableSerene
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The moment investigative journalist Anita Javier stepped into Nepal, disaster began following her like a shadow. What was meant to be a humanitarian and cultural assignment inside the Kathmandu Valley quickly descends into chaos after a devastating earthquake uncovers something far more terrifying than nature itself, the silent resurgence of Las Gina, the terrorist organization believed to have vanished twenty years ago. Caught between collapsing cities, armed syndicates, and a deadly conspiracy connected to the mysterious Draigana, Anita finds herself repeatedly crossing paths with Commander Gajuan Shamer of Alphageus, an elite military force created to stop global terror before it consumes entire nations. Cold, reckless, and dangerously devoted, Juan carries secrets buried beneath years of bloodshed and war. Yet despite the violence surrounding them, Anita slowly discovers herself drawn toward the commander whose presence feels both like salvation and destruction. But while love begins to bloom amidst catastrophe, the past refuses to stay buried. The massacre that destroyed Anita's first team in China six years ago, the tragedy that left her haunted and fractured, was never the accident she believed it to be. And Juan was there. As old survivors resurface and long-hidden truths unravel, Anita is forced to confront the horrifying reality behind Alphageus, Las Gina, and the man she is slowly falling in love with. Because sometimes, the cruelest tragedies are not caused by earthquakes or bullets. Sometimes, they are caused by the people who survive them. In a world where cities collapse, memories bleed, and war devours everything in its path, Anita and Juan must decide whether love is enough to save two broken souls... or if they were always destined to destroy each other first. -- Language: Taglish (Tagalog & English).