✪ TAMED • WRITTEN IN TAGLISH • SAPPHIC ROMANCE Zamantha Karssen Abvelino is a sponsored student, concealing her talent and struggling with a deflated self-concept. Her world flips on its axis when a formidable teacher, feared by all, enters her life and brings a brand new set of barriers. Professor Rhio Ritchel Sandoval is an untamed authority on academia. As a brilliant and celebrated teacher, she commands the attention of every student who crosses her path. With a razor-sharp intellect and a personality as complex as the subjects she teaches, Rhio is an enigma. Fate has a curious way of interweaving the most improbable strands, and such is the case for these extraordinary women. The once-uncontrollable forces that defined them are tamed, giving way to a passionate and unpredictable romance that defied all odds. Their love affair is a dance of self-discovery, one that is as electrifying as it is daunting. As they learn to tame their steps, they become more empowered and emboldened, trusting in the unexpected twists of destiny.

She was a student who always tried to prove herself, while she was a professor at the same time CEO who never let her guard down. Can these two truly find comfort in each other's presence? It begins with secret glances and unspoken concern, but...... Slowly it grows into something they cannot quite name. Is it only a secret they will keep in silence, or the kind of love that could change everything?

Sage needs money badly to give her mother a better life. She gets a job where she has to pretend to be a man to join the rich Lefevre family. She thinks it will be easy, but then she meets the youngest Lefevre, Kinsley Amelia. The beautiful woman makes Sage realize she might not be straight. As she falls in love, Sage must choose: keep pretending or give up the job to be with the woman she loves. Can she keep up the act, or will she risk everything for love?

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Yvette Gwen Martinez, An archery scholar at Cromwell University-and the sole reason the next reigning queen extended her stay in the Philippines. Two people met in the most clichéd way, yet from that moment, love slowly began to bloom, changing both of their lives. A love so forbidden, for the future queen must never associate with a commoner. But beware-touch what's hers, and you'll find that a bomb is nothing more than a plaything to her. TAGALOG-ENGLISH [SEPTEMBER 2023 - OCTOBER 2023]

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Hope

These women thought their paths would never align. Romy Vanelle never dreamed of working in a run-down pizza shop. The prestigious cooking academy La Cherief is supposed to be her escape. Little does she know that the gorgeous disaster who once ordered a pineapple pizza with garlic buns will soon become the person she fears most: Arabella Renette, world-famous chef-and Romy's strict, perfection-obsessed instructor, who mysteriously stopped cooking years ago. Keeping the elite scholarship that keeps her afloat won't be her only challenge. She'll also have to survive the dangerously attractive chef who watches her every move. Romy likes to taste the danger. And she soon realizes she'll have to take everything with... A Grain of Salt.

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