WATTYS 2022 SHORTLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE -- SEPTEMBER 2021 EXCLUSIVE CHAPTERS AND WRITER'S REVEAL CONTENT AVAILABLE - NOT A PAID STORY Appearances can be deceiving. What if the Bad Boy wasn't so bad and the good girl wasn't quite so good? Kelly Wankum has an unfortunate last name and even worse luck. By the tender age of twenty-three, she's broken her tailbone, thumb, her nose, hip, and now her rib. It wouldn't be so bad if she could say something funny like, "I broke myself on a stripper pole" or "I was mugged in a Walmart parking lot." That would actually be believable, right? Instead, she breaks her rib reaching for a ball of yarn. Even worse, everyone knows she's so accident prone, she could sneeze and lose a tooth. They'd probably bet on her swallowing it in a pancake. Oh wait, she's done that too. Another trip to the Urgent Care has the doctors shaking their heads, offering to pray for her health while new, sexy Doctor Blake Cole immediately gets off on the wrong foot. Months after their first encounter, Blake and Kelly meet again by chance. After inadvertantly humiliating her, Blake tries to set things straight and make it up to her. The problem is, Blake's lifestyle is painfully different, and Kelly can't help imagining him like every bad boy she's ever read about online. Can Blake convince her to give him a chance and prove he's actually a good guy? **This story is set in the present and the pandemic is part of the narrative.** --Cover by AnnieRosebud-- ©2020, 2022

"If you are virgin, they will hunt you. . . then if you are not, you will die." Plano ni Diserie na hanapin ang kaniyang tunay na mga magulang kasama ang kaniyang kasintahan na si Moonsar, sa bayan ng Batanes. Ngunit ang paghahanap nila ay mauuwi sa isang hindi maipaliwanag na pangyayari. Anong klaseng virus itong nagkalat sa buong bansang Pilipinas? Sa kaniyang paghahanap ay mahaharap sila sa isang pakikipaglaban at ang iligtas ang kanilang sarili mula sa kamatayan. Can they survive? VIRGIN HUNT. Wattpad 2019. © JHOSA ARION

WATTYS 2021 WINNER - ROMANCE CATEGORY Cassidy Prim, a public figure who despises being in the spotlight, headed to a lesser-known island to get away from everything for a bit. She started a relationship with Lincoln Eleazar, whom she had just met there. She then realized that she was slowly falling in love with the place as well as with the man. Everything was great until the man that brought her peace also brought chaos in her life. Things had changed in an instant. She told herself that she would never return to the love-cursed island because doing so would reopen deep wounds she had been trying to heal. But it seems that destiny has other plans for the two. Little did they know, their existence is significant to the island's fate.

Fortune teller Aurea Feliciano gets a major plot twist when a compass necklace makes her the chosen bride of doubter hot-torney Tor Velez. The initial plan is simple: live together for three months. But when the mysteries behind the necklace resurface, maybe being together isn't as easy as it seems. *** Twenty-three-year-old Aurea Feliz Feliciano only wishes to finish her studies and get a stable job. But her life completely changes when she finds a mysterious compass necklace underneath her dead grandfather's bed. The plot twist? The necklace makes her the bride-to-be of Atty. Kale Thomas Velez. After getting hurt from his previous relationship, Tor is completely against the idea of marrying a stranger like Aurea. But through his grandmother's wish and the given history of the compass necklace, he finally caves in and gives it a try. Nothing could go wrong in living with a fortune teller who sees spirits, right? Or maybe not. Disclaimer: This story is written in Taglish. Cover Design by Regina Dionela

[Complete] Isla Halloran has dreamed of visiting her father's birthplace, Merrow Island, since she was a child. Her grandfather would fill her head with stories of its beauty and legends: emerald pastures, blue seas, and cliffs that stretched into the sky. She vowed she'd visit one day. She just didn't know that one day would be her junior year of high school, or that the visit would be permanent. Angry with the turn of events, she struggles to find any of the magic her grandfather had described. That is until she meets Kieran Murphy and his friends. Dreamy, dark, and just a bit dangerous, Kieran reveals the hidden wonders of the Island. Wonders that include magic, myths, and a curse. A curse, that for over three centuries, has bound every islander. And now she knows...coming to Merrow Island was never going to be her choice. Her fate was sealed at the moment of her birth. Because she's the key to breaking the curse, and they'll do whatever it takes to keep her there so they can finally be free.

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