Zairi Salcedo is no stranger to the spotlight-or so she thought. As a die-hard basketball fan and a fourth-year Communication Arts student at DLSU, she's living the dream when she becomes the courtside correspondent for the UAAP's legendary Green Archers. But between navigating team dynamics, handling the pressure of live coverage, and keeping up with her chaotic college life, Zairi's world becomes even more complicated by one person: Sahenz Jacob Fegalquin- the reigning MVP, the Green Archers' powerhouse, and a total enigma. As subtle tension builds between them, Zairi finds herself torn between maintaining her professionalism and the undeniable pull of the team's star player. In the midst of rivalries, rallies, and a season that promises to be unforgettable, Zairi must decide: will she play it safe on the sidelines or take a chance on the game of the heart?

Hiraya Francesca is the golden child of Eunthastica University Foundation, the genius prodigy is bound to nothing but success. She treaded her life with grace and confidence. For her, failure isn't a roadblock but a redirection for something greater. A perfectly curated diamond amidst stone and sand. A perfectly curated success in a world full of commonness and mediocrity. Hiraya can have anything in this world, may it be beauty, brain, or boys. Everything. Except for Deimos Soledad de Merced. Kaya noong nagkaroon ng pagkakataon at hinayaan nitong makapasok si Hiraya sa buhay nito ay hindi na niya pinalagpas pa ito. She seized her chance and gambled, ngunit tama nga yata ang sabi nila; lahat ng matatalino, pag dating sa pag ibig ay nagiging bobo. She poured her heart and soul into all the oceans that she sailed and the spaces in between that she crossed, only to be welcomed by betrayal and loss. She loved him, he despised her. She trusted him, he betrayed her. She watched him tore her kingdom, and offer it to his own queen. Stripped out of her own title, the golden child lost her kingdom and crown. Date started: December 2023 Date finished: December 2024

When Natalia Alexandrine Dela Merced was born, it was a bittersweet grain of ends and beginnings-her mother couldn't survive due to certain health complications. She was raised prim and proper by her father, who has constantly expressed his civil and straightforward plans for her in the City of Baguio. Buong buhay niya, hindi siya kailanman nagreklamo sa pagpapasiya ng kaniyang ama para sa kaniyang buhay. She's a Civil Engineering student with an exceptional sense of control and intelligence. She doesn't divert from her plans-she sticks with them through fire and water. But life turns a whole 180-degree when she starts resorting to spontaneous decisions. She began to appreciate uncalled decisions and plans made in a heartbeat because of Apollo 1997's lead vocalist -Octavian Desmond Santillan. But would that do her good in the long term? Especially when she encounters a twisted and wicked life event brought by the man she has finally found a home and genuine happiness with. Started: October 2020 Finished: June 2021

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

You can read this as a standalone story! Cavanaugh #3 Kaleidoscope is a marine archeologist and a wreck diver. The unbothered, expressionless, and boyish girl with monolid eyes, short jet-black hair and skin of milky white. She has this personality characterizing boredom and emptiness. With just one blank stare from her, all girls would sway and boys would swoon. After all she have to go through with the rough waves of her life, she have controlled not to show emotions.

Spotlight gives Fennel an undying love and attention. Art is what she's living, and to see that person destroy the thing she works for wrecks her. Her dreams shattered like glass, and who she is behind those luxurious lifestyles. She wanted revenge. A sweet and dirty vengeance. For her ambition and limelight. She took the risk... to kiss the flames... but at the same time, shivered under him. To shiver under the monstrous Strauss dè Allegre. 02/24/22 (13:12) 08/27/24 (23:42) Disclaimer: I do not own the photo used on the book cover. Credits to the rightful owner.

Insecure, selfish, and coward. If Verbena Regencia will be asked how does she describe herself, those three words will be her answer. Alam niya sa sarili niya na ganoon ang magiging tingin ng tao sa kaniya kapag nalaman ng lahat ang mga ginawa niya noon. She was given a chance to leave her home and when she did, she did not dare to come back. The arrival of her brother and his best friends suddenly made her reminisce everything after almost three years of not coming home---Why she had to move away and why she had to stay away from her family for years, all those questions reminded her that she should avoid them. Verbena thought she did a good job at running away but when Crithos Fortuno, her brother's best friend, started pestering the peace out of her, she started losing patience. He was stubborn and acts like he knows everything that she knows. He was uncontrollable, like a playful beast. She ran away. He followed and chased her. Like the uncontrollable beast that he is, he caught and trapped her. The tables have turned and now, he controlled everything-made her fall in love with him. But is everything even real or was it just all a play? Paano kung kailangan niya ng sabihin ang lahat...handa na ba siya para roon? Handa na ba siyang mawala ang lahat sa kaniya?

Syden Amaryllis only dreamed of three things in life: to find her parents, to have her own complete family and to be a doctor. Nabuhay ang pag-asa niyang iyon nang ampunin siya ng mga Costello at ibigay lahat ng bagay sa kaniya. She thought she was already accepted. She thought she's already a part of that world until she met Atticus Rhett Vasiliev, ang kaibigan ng kaniyang kapatid na si Boaz. Rhett always made her feel like she's nothing. Spitting unpleasant words on her and being cold to the point that she felt afraid of him. She wanted to stay away but fate brought them closer together when they were put up into an engagement that they cannot refused. With her soft and frightened heart on his cold one, will she be able to melt him? If she has nothing, what else could she prove?

WARNING: Mature Content | R18 STATUS: Complete (Enemies Series 1) Vernaise Sven Sarmiento, the eldest of the fourth generation of Sarmientos, was taught by her grandfather about the ongoing and never-ending issue among the three powerful families in the region. One of those is that Montecarlo's men fall for De Leon's women, and De Leon's men will always hopelessly fall for Sarmiento's women. It's like a spell, true and unbreakable, her grandfather said. And like a child, she always believed that it was real, especially when she thought she held the heart of one of the finest and most eligible men in the De Leon family. The truthfulness of that unwritten spell intensified it and overwhelmed her. But how far will she make herself believe if she is treated as an enemy? Will she still pursue and hope despite the hate and anger thrown at her for bearing the surname of an enemy? Just how far can she go to successfully DATE THY ENEMY?

erps series #2 complete [unedited] If only you loved me; maybe our fate would have become better and maybe the pain would have become worth it. Princess Aziah "Ziah" Florencio doesn't believe in being attached to the concept of love and she had given up the idea of finding a prince as she never had been introduced to fairytales. Okay na sa kan'ya ang hindi magmahal, basta hindi rin siya masasaktan. Her habit of making players cry unexpectedly made her cross paths with a known player who seemed to be interested in her. . .but also sends her a lot of mixed signals. Ryker Miguel Adeva is the epitome of the reason why Ziah avoids being in love. . .unfortunately, he is also the reason why being loved seemed to be a good experience. With all the contradictions and bending of beliefs, will Ziah finally be able to let herself experience being loved? In exchange for also unguarding her heart against Ryker? If only she allows herself to love him?