When you have set the precedent, you become a name built on expectation. Mataas ang pangarap ko dahil mataas din ang pangarap ng iba para sa akin. Some people grow up chasing dreams. I grew up carrying them. For as long as I can remember, my life has been measured by numbers-grades, rankings, achievements, and all the things that made people believe I was destined for something greater. I became the girl who always knew the answer, the daughter who never caused trouble, the student everyone expected to succeed. Failure was never an option. Rest was never enough. And being "good" was never something I got to define for myself; it was something I had to maintain. But somewhere between being everyone's investment and everyone's hope, I forgot how to become my own person. Then life gave me something that was never part of the plan. Something they warned me about. Something they called a distraction. A risk. A mistake. Pero ang tawag ko roon ay... pagmamahal. Sabi nila, "lason ang pag-ibig sa babaeng mataas ang pangarap." That love will make you lose focus, lose direction, lose everything you've worked for. But tell me... if love is poison to ambition, why does it feel like the only thing that ever made me forget I was surviving instead of living? And if that's true... Why does losing it feel like I lost the only reason I ever wanted to succeed at all?

It started with a nosebleed. One accidental headbutt, one very public disaster, and suddenly Rory Callyns is that girl, the one who almost broke her crush's face. She's quiet, awkward, and definitely not the kind of girl who gets kissed at parties. And then there's Carden Rayne, popular, gorgeous, and the kind of boy people can't help but fall for. So when Rory asks him for help for kissing lessons and he says yes, it's supposed to be harmless. Practice, boost confidence, nothing really real, somewhere between the laughter, the late night talks, and the almosts that start to feel like more, practice stops feeling like pretending.

Sabi nila, may mga taong dumarating sa buhay natin. Hindi natin sila pinili, pero hindi rin mapipigilan. Dahil kung para sa'yo, ibabalik at ibabalik ito ng tadhana. Sa ilalim ng pamumuno ng Espanyol, ang bayan ng San Estrella ay naging saksi sa mga kasunduang pinag-isa ng yaman, kapangyarihan, at tradisyon. Ngunit ang tadhana ay may ibang nakalaan. After more than two centuries in the year 2025, Aleina Estrella, a modern STEM student, will find herself drawn into a journey that unravels the secrets of the past. Through a twist of fate, the Aleina of today will cross paths with the echoes of yesterday, and a love that refuses to fade with time.

Si Maximus Easton Morterero ay hindi nakaririnig at hindi nakapagsasalita kung kaya't mailap siya sa tao. Nang lumipat sila ng tahanan dahil sa kagustuhan ng kanyang lola na malapit at maalagaan ang apo ay hindi niya inaasahan na ang nakasanayan niyang katahimikan ay masisira sa limang mukhang tanga. Kakayanin kaya ni Max ito? O hindi? What are you waiting for, basahin mo na para malaman mo ang kwento, 'di ba?

𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝘿𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙍𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙧, 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙨, 𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨, 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙭𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬-𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣, 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙧. 𝙄'𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝙗𝙡𝙪𝙧𝙗𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙤𝙮 𝙢𝙮 𝙜𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮. 🧬🧬🧬 𝕾𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖒 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖒𝖊, 𝕯𝖎𝖘𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖊. He refers to me as Disease, not as a name but as a label. He claims I embody the pallor of death and have tainted their cell. The other two choose to remain neutral in this assessment. According to him, the three of us hold no significance in this prison; we are merely commodities to be consumed, traded, or used for the amusement of other inmates, with me being nothing more than a contagion spreading my affliction. The troubling truth is that he is correct- none of them are mistaken- but what he fails to grasp is the irony inherent in his statements. 🧬🧬🧬 Step into the far reaches of Kriarik-Keep, a formidable Galactical prison where Nina and her crew are facing charges of High Value Theft and Galactical Bio-warfare. With her home and her at husband stake, Nina has more to loose than that, and is prepared to go to extraordinary lengths to protect her hidden truth, even if that means unwillingly breaking- out Kriarik-Keep's four most notorious inmates. But what happens when a certain three have a plan of their own? What furture does that set out for our beloved Nina?

As an author of this book, before you proceed to read it, I wanted to ask a question. Do we seek a partner to finally see who we truly are, or do we seek love as an escape from the burden of our own identities?

Lily De Chavez has something that threatened to cut her line, something that she won't allow to end. And attending her dream school has made that stronger. Thanks to her determination and brain that leads her to reach something far from where she came from. She made a self-promise that she's going to graduate senior high without distraction and will go straight to college after. But what if, during her journey to her dream she went into a side quest where she had a crush with the Vice President of the Royalties? With things as they are right now, not even herself can stop the growing feelings she's going through. Will she minimize her feelings? Or maximize her self awareness? But she knows one thing's for sure, Jace Hart will never get serious with her.

She's water. Arielle Faith De Leon, a Filipina lawyer sworn to an oath. defend the innocent, uphold justice, believe in second chances. He's fire. Enzo Thiago Moreira, a Brazilian heir raised in hell, forged by betrayal and seven years in a prison that broke him. She came to save him with the law. He came to burn the world that buried him alive. When water meets fire, one drowns, one ignites, and the truth burns between them. Arielle: "I can fix him through the law." Enzo: "I can destroy an entire country."

There are losses that never truly end. Only soften with time until they become part of the silence you learn to live with. For Rion Alcantara, that silence has become home. Five years after everything changed, he moves through life with careful distance. Measured, controlled, and carefully untouched by anything that might reopen what he has already buried within himself. To the world, he is composed. Unshaken. But grief is rarely as quiet as it seems. Then Vianne Valerio arrives. A new presence in a life built on absence, she is not meant to disturb anything. Only to exist briefly in the background of his carefully structured world. Yet something about her unsettles him in ways he cannot explain. It is like a memory he cannot place. As their worlds begin to overlap, the boundaries he has held onto for years begin to loosen. Feelings he thought were long gone begin to surface in unfamiliar ways, forcing him to confront emotions he has spent years avoiding. And Vianne, unknowingly, becomes the question he was never ready to answer. Because some people do not arrive to change your life. Some arrive to reveal how much of it you never truly let go.

A rivalry built in calm, and destroyed by truth.