Montereal Series #5 Mariabella Celestia Salvancia dreams big. From the start, she has set her eyes on her goal to become a successful Engineer. She is the last hope of her family and nothing else will hinder her from achieving that. Everything is going as planned, when she gets accepted to a prestigious university. Simula't sapul, alam niyang hindi siya dapat madistract sa pangarap niya. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity and probably the answer to her prayers. Nothing is going to ruin the plans she made... not until he came.

Montereal Series #3 Amara Daphne Villada is the spoiled princess of her family. Growing up in New Zealand, she had everything she wanted. Her status in school, her boyfriend, her friends... but one mistake took all of that from her. As punishment, she is then forced to stay in the Philippines with her brother, deprived of extra allowances and enrolled in a new school where she had to start all over again. She then meets him. He is a lot more older than her, but she knew what she wanted. She wanted him. But he's way too high above for her to reach. She knew that they could never align with each other... no matter how hard she tries. Broken hearts, lies, and conflicted feelings ... will she still find her way to what her heart truly desires?

Montereal Series # 2 Living her life in luxury is not as happy as it seems for Nadine Alicia Montereal. Everyone envied her. Everyone wanted to be her. Yet, she was never happy. For she had to live in the standards of her father who only cares about passing on his legacy to her, being his only heiress. She never felt that he cared for her. He never cared for what she wanted. She always felt like a prisoner in the home she grew up with. She longed for love. But then, things started to change when he came. He changed everything for her. He made her feel the love she desired for years... he made her strong, he made her fight for what she wanted. However, one accident will ruin everything for her... an accident that will cause her to lose everything... including herself.

Montereal Series #1 Asteria Margaret Elizalde has always wondered how her life would turn out in the future. All she wants is to achieve her dreams, marry her crush, live the life of luxury that she is used to, but when things start falling apart she finds herself alone and hopeless. She realizes that not all things that you want will come to you in an instant... and that not all people you love will eventually love you back. Blinded by pain, she sets herself in a clouded world of negativity. Until the Montereals came to her life.

Rule #1: Don't force fate. It will just happen. Lia, never believed in destiny. She always believed that if there is a will, there is a way. She will do anything she can to get what she wants no matter how hard it will take. When she meets Gray, who turns out to be her blockmate in an usual rush hour, it becomes more than a coincidence everytime they would meet in the public transportation every morning, in the same time and the same place. She then starts to wonder, is destiny indeed... real?

Rule #2 : Never get yourself burned by the same flames. For Audrey, Blaze is like a fire she doesn't want to involve herself into. Bawat lapit niya'y napapaso siya at pilit na nilalayo ang sarili niya. He's a fuel for disaster and she knew that. Alam niya na pag hinayaan niya ang sarili niyang mahulog dito ay magbabago ang lahat para sa kanilang dalawa. Pero hindi ganon kadali ang layuan ito. For every time she steps away, he comes forward. For every denial, the fire spreads wilder. Hindi niya na alam ang gagawin dito, lalo lang tumitibay ang inis at ang apoy na pilit niyang pinapatay. All she knows is, he must avoid him at all costs. Wag lang maulit ang nangyari noon.

They ended something that never even began. Paano nya kakalimutan ang isang bagay na hindi naman talaga naging kanya? No label, no closure-just questions and what ifs. How do she move on from someone who was never hers in the first place? It hurts, not because it ended, but because it never had the chance to start. No goodbyes. No beginnings. Just an almost. She clung to the possibility, to the idea of what could have been. Because sometimes, even the 'almost' feels real. Maybe they were never meant to be-just meant to almost be. Pero paano kung sa muli nilang pagtatagpo, bigyan sila ng tadhana ng isa pang pagkakataon? This time... to finally begin.

Forced to enter law school, Artellia Mercaveles wants to prove to her ex-boyfriend and her mother that she can finish her degree despite her passion for the arts. But when she meets Fierro and her newfound friends, she soon realizes that life is more than living up to someone else's expectations. *** Art is the heartbeat of Artellia Mercaveles' soul. But when her boyfriend admits he cheated with someone from law school, she vows to prove him wrong and show the world she can be a lawyer despite her passion for the arts. Living under the shadow of her mother, a celebrated bar topnotcher, the pressure to succeed weighs heavily on her shoulders. Law school becomes her battlefield, and crossing paths with Fierro Oeuvre Fortaverde is the twist she never saw coming. Yet as destiny unfolds, Artellia realizes that chasing everyone's expectations is an endless void. She must now fight to define herself, not how others demand, but as the masterpiece she was always meant to become. DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish. ILLUSTRATED BY: ArtbyMakade COVER DESIGN: Rayne Mariano