The best nights of my life happened in August. My heart will always stay in the Nights of August.

Lizette Chavez only wants to escape her cruel life in the arms of her family, and marrying Hale Salcedo is her only hope. But as she learns the dark truth behind his past, she must decide if love can survive the shadows of old mistakes. *** Lizette Chavez has only ever dreamed of escape--from the cruelty of her own home, from a life that's never been hers to claim. Her chance comes when she meets Hale Salcedo, a man older than her and a widower raising two children who've yet to accept her. Determined to win their love, Lizette pours her heart into becoming the mother they lost. But when Hale's past resurfaces--revealing secrets about the tragic death of his wife--Lizette begins to wonder if she's stepped into safety or danger. Hale swears he will never repeat the mistakes that cost him everything, but can Lizette trust him enough to believe that their future won't be haunted by his past? DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish. COVER DESIGN: Louise De Ramos

(for mature readers only 18 and up) The story of Brixton Ford "I might hurt you Lucia, I am rough SAVAGE even, I can never be gentle" he warned her, trying with all his might of not taking her. Her slender fingers touched and traced his lips, "I don't want you to be gentle" she whispered to him. *** Brixton Ford will live in a life of seclusion for a while as he tried to cover and ran from his past. But as he tried not to fall in love, he will meet the most innocent woman he had ever met that will love him for who and what he was. Will he let his heart fall again and succumb to her unconditional love? Can her pure heart help him wash the savage part of him, that he inherited from his beast of a father? Completed December 2020 © CACAI1981

Sandejas Legacy #3: Chaining Lockets Sandejas Legacy continues... "He's still chained like a locket, not to me...but in someone else's neck." Crest Veronica Sandejas is the high-maintenance fashionista heiress of Atty. Iñigo Sandejas. The ultimate kikay of the century, she loves shopping, glittery things, booze, and parties. She believes in living her life to the fullest because she can only have it once. She loves spending money; she loves hanging out with friends and partying all night that her father could already imagine white strands of hair on his head. She's a happy-go-lucky woman, but behind those smiles lies the loneliest woman you'll ever meet. Crest was living the life until she met that man with seductive gray eyes and a strict, cold face, Lt. Lorcan Keith Dmitrov, the man who would turn her life upside down. She thought it was the start of her own happy ending, but soon realized she was not in a fairytale with rainbows and butterflies. Instead, they're in a dark fantasy, scary and twisted. When the secrets from their past start unraveling and monsters start chasing them, what if the ends of the links locking them met? Will they be able to free themselves from the chains tied to them?

SPG | R-18

Love. Passion. Power. Three different things but when combined together, beyond great power. Like a steel that can't be broken. Platinum that can't be melted. Flames that can't be easily wiped off. Anoushka Blaze Hernandez, an ungrateful daughter of a lawyer and prosecutor, whose life revolves around three things: friends, excessive activities, and her countless boyfriends. However, she has been expatriated to her grandmother's hometown. She hates Provinces and she hates her parents for making her live to a place where she doesn't want to. Mad flames engulfed her. She's like a dying ember of the sun covered by blue flames: untouchable, cunning, intangible, wicked. Would she be able to survive with her new environment? Would she be able to find trusted friends there? She's in a great mess but she has no other choice but to accept her fate. Flames' raging in her body and it's fatal, like a bed of flames no one could survive... however it gives her life meaningful and pigmental. Sounds cliché, isn't it? She met someone that became her safe haven. She found Love, Passion, and Power in him. She understood that those flames give her the best and worst feeling in her life yet it's worth to live. People say, the more you hate, the more you love. However, the more she loves, the more hard times she encounters. She endeavors to grow but she's young enough, will she make it? But what would happen when the flames' raging in her body suddenly gone? Like a blink of an eye. Waves of the sea. A wind's blow. She has lost her love, her passion, her everything. It became cold, shade... and lifeless. Would she be able to survive again without those flames giving her life? How about those three things? Will Love, Passion, and Power ignite again? 7.7.21 - 9.9.21 Bed of Flames

A forbidden flower which everyone likes. A forbidden love which everyone is willing to die for. Aya is an innocent and vulnerable woman who has managed to conquer her forbidden love towards the man beyond her status. Lots of men adore her but her sight only focuses on the man she has learned to love. Isang taong itinitingala ng nakararami. Aya knows that this forbidden love won't get her anywhere but her innocence-like a sprout of a rose-leads her to commit a thing that will eventually be regretted. Life is just too unfair for Aya. The man she loved the most hurt her. Her innocence has blown away. The sprout of the rose has grown fiercer and bolder with thorns around it. She's not the same innocent woman at all, her experience wakes the sleeping lion inside her. Pero paano kung bumalik ang taong minsan nang dumurog sa kanyang puso? Will the thorns around her shatter and let him become part of her life again? Love is forbidden. And loving him means conquering the world. Mamahalin mo parin ba ang isang tao kung magiging kalaban mo naman ang buong mundo? BED OF ROSES _______________________ 8/18/21

(R-18) KIERO MONTERELAOS-BOS (BEAST OF STARS) ((The best love story is when you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.)) AGE DOESN'T MATTER WHEN IT COMES TO LOVE. Siya si KIERO MONTERELAOS. Ang lalakeng tinaguriang "Man of few words" dahil sa bihira lang ito magsalita. Siya yong tipo ng lalakeng walang hilig pagdating sa PAG-IBIG. Dahil mas inuuna pa nito ang tungkulin na pangalagaan ang business na pinamana sa kanya ng kanyang ama. Wala sa motto niya ang pumasok sa isang relasyon, wala din siyang natitipuang babae. Kahit gaano pa kadami ang babaeng umaaligid sa kanya ay wala siyang pakialam. Ngunit sadyang mapaglaro ang tadhana. Makikilala niya ang dalagitang magbabago ng lahat sa buhay niya. Siya si RICHEL MACDONI. Ang babaeng darating sa buhay ni Kiero Monterelaos. WARNING! Rated spg. Series #5 Story of KIERO MONTERELAOS. The man of few words.

Blackmailed by her own father, Syden Avianna Gray was forced to seduce a man in order to keep their company alive and her son's safety. She entered motherhood in an early age and now she was left no choice but to accept his father's demand. Kahit na labag sa kalooban, gagamitin ni Syden Avianna Gray ang natatanging alas para mapaluhod si Ace Caspian Walton. Being a mother means protecting her child at all cost... even if it risks her dignity and exchanges her body. Pero makakaya kaya ni Syden na paluhurin ang isang Ace Caspian Walton VII? Will everything fall into place once he got seduced? Paano kung malaman ni Ace ang sikreto niya? Makakaya rin kaya niyang harapin ang matinding delubyong paparating kung sakaling malantad ang lahat? "If seducing you were a sin, then I would gladly be your sinful sexy vixen." Seducing my Baby's Father