The S #4 Kaia Persephone Ziegler is an actress, not just by profession but also in real life. After all, she needs to act if she wants to survive the chains that her father has on her neck. She needs to act like an obedient daughter. She needs to act like a lovestruck fiancée. She needs to act like everything is okay to her even when it is not. She has been acting for her entire life that she is already used to it. That is until she gets saved by Hadeon Davis Serrano during the worst night of her life, a stranger that slowly becomes her solace, an escape where she can get rid of her facade, and a haven for throwing her inhibitions. Something that she never thought she can have in this lifetime. Will Hades be her way out of hell? Or will she only drag him into the pits with her, just like how the myth goes?

Around Manila Series 2 Missy and Anton Sometimes, letting go means less wounds than holding on. Missy, a Broadcasting student and iskolar ng bayan from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, is known for her social skills. She blends in anywhere, whether it's a hairstyle, an outfit, or new people. With her personality, she effortlessly connects with others. Missy believes that every connection is like a string, some loosely tied, others knotted tightly. She spent her life gripping them tightly, even when they burned and hurt her hands. Because to her, that's what love looked like. But how long can she keep tying knots with people who only want to untangle themselves? How much of herself must she give up just to stop them from turning their backs? Antonio Gabriel Simon, her ex-fling, a Political Science graduate and alumni from PUP, comes back into her life. Antonio has always believed that if someone doesn't like you, just let them go. Their strings cross paths again when they both receive a surprise message from Beebeads: they've been chosen from thousands of past buyers of couple bracelet for a chance to win ₱500,000, if they can prove they're the most heart-fluttering couple. Will they allow their strings to be tied once more? Can they tighten the knots again, despite the thousand reasons to loosen them?

Anjel Delo Santos, a Lasallian, craved affection from her parents. It wasn't easy getting it. She had to be brilliant because her parents were intellectual people who yearned for recognition in their own fields. College was her opportunity of being brilliant. As Anjel walked on the streets of Malate, she will see a disappointed-looking River Alexandre Abad. As a fan of River, who is a DLSU student, she couldn't help but be concerned with the basketball player's state. While they get to know each other, would their eyes appreciate the silver lining in the midst of the nimbus clouds around them?

WATTY'S SHORTLIST 2023 Stuck in the never-ending responsibilities as one of the breadwinners of the family, Calisse Abigail Guillermo, an Iska from UP Manila, seeks to find true comfort between drinking and smoking. But she never does. Her desire to find consolation in everything is not found within the consumption of toxins. When she meets fellow smoker Chance Luy, a UP med student, in the bustling street of Pedro Gil, she thanks the heavens for a chance to meet him. Chance is your worn-out med student who is stingy. As they ponder about life, would they find solace as they share a moment of smoke?

'If we will be stuck in a remote island naked, nothing will even happen.' Those were Rosh's exact words to describe her relationship with Lucho. She's clearly not a fan of friends to lovers trope. They've been friends for five years yet her indignation towards him gets worse every day. It is past mending. She doesn't even know why she dislikes him, or how and where it all started, she just hates him. That's it. Until her 18th birthday came. Book cover by cottonbro studio in pexels

Brittian Teo Lauchico Brittian Lauchico proved that you can really never have it all. Despite his name and money, he could not make the mother of his child stay. Anong kulang? Saan siya nagkamali? He supported her showbiz career from the beginning but it wasn't enough to make Shivonne Pardo de Tavera stay in their life. On the other hand, Oliviana Lola Alerica, was struggling to survive by herself. Imagine, may siyan kang kapatid tapos lahat ay palamunin at walang pagkukusa? Luckily, opportunity strucked her, she became the nanny of Celine Lau ch ico, the only daughter of Brittian Lauchico. It was unexpected. It was all fun until Shivonne came into the picture again. Saan niya ilulugar ang sarili niya?

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

Blamed and accused of every miss deed, from natural disasters to stealing the young love a spoiled daughter of a nobleman. Emmy's life turned upside down when the whole world turned their backs on her. Living her life as the villain in everyone's eyes, she is hated on, despised, and cursed at. However to Emmy, if they want her to be the villain. She'll be play that role. She'll become a villain and live her life without reservations. She'll say what she'll want to say. Do what she wants to do. Eat what she wants to eat. Sleep with whoever she wants to sleep with. She'll live her life freely, the way she wants to live it. If they want to blame her and make her into a villain. Then she'll be it. Just as long as they leave her alone. However should they come knocking on her doors, she'll live up to those villainous rumors and make it reality. **Warning**Extremely mature content

Cold City Series #1: Silent Echo of the Introvert "In her gentle ways, she can shake my whole being." - Alpha Kael Grosvenor *** In a world of introverts like Ara, the likes of Alpha Kael Grosvenor were an inconvenience to her, a not-so-ordinary basketball team captain with a persistence that beats no other. When he started showing signs of how smitten he was with her, that's when her life went out of control. Terrified of taking a risk that might complicate her life, she ran and ran away from him. Only to be tripped by the reality that Alpha Kael was inescapable.

Ace And Spade twins who suffered from an abusive childhood,those twins who carry a big scar deep in their hearts they were raised in a private and top secret organization.as years pass by, they became the top ranked best agents Slash Spies of that Non government organization who gives justice from Syndicates big syndicates and mafia organizations. Those twin brothers ordinary students at day,top ranked boy agents at night...but what if those twin brothers are actually twin SISTERS? "Sometimes I just want to be myself and be a woman living freely and carelessly" "Yeah live as womens...but unfortunately even we were born women we have to live as mens that's our destiny" ~~~ "A girl?Don't make me laugh!girls are weak!They were actually created to bring men plain pleasure at night they were just toys that if we mens don't want anymore it should be in waste so if I were you two, stay on what you are now and don't ever think being a weak creature!" Those words that marked in their minds those words they will never forget. But then a mission came...they have to guard two cold blooded unbelievably hot guys little they know those guys will change and ruin everything.... "I'm a man that's what I'm destined to be" "But is that what you want?Cause right now I'm seeing an amazingly beautiful woman" "Stop lying no one can see me as a woman" "But I just did..." Will those two be able to destroy the thick cold walls surrounding the twin's heart? In that school where it all started... "Underestimating those demons is like digging your own grave..." ***Frost Academy:All Boys School WARNING:NO TO PLAGIARISM!THIS CAME FROM MY MIND ORIGINALLY SO DONT COPY IT!