Zenesis #1 (R21) | on-going Contessa Zorron has spent her life living up to someone else's expectations. As the daughter of a powerful resort magnate, her future is never hers to name. After her mother's death, she clings to the only dream she has left: to finish what her mother started and claim an island up north. When Contessa crosses paths with a man whose charm hides centuries of blood and betrayal, her world begins to twist. He moves through the world like a secret, groomed beneath the weight of the governor's legacy. He's everything Contessa has been taught to avoid, but he's the only one who sees the wrath she's learned to suppress. In a world where societal constructs and grievances intertwine to shape their deepest desires, can they find a way to build a future together? A future where they can finally break free from the fabricated desires that have held them captive for so long? *** This book delves into themes of dark romance that may be uncomfortable for some readers. Reader discretion is strongly advised. If the characters or themes do not resonate with you at any point, feel free to step away as early as the first chapters. Also, please note that the views and opinions expressed by the characters do not reflect those of the author. This story is a work of fiction meant for mature audiences. Any resemblance to actual events, places, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. This story is written by HEARTMINION. Do not distribute, publish, transmit, modify, display or create derivative works from or exploit the contents of this story in any way.

[The Wattys 2025 Shortlist] ********** She spent twenty-four years preserving herself for one man-only for him to choose her best friend instead. Tomorrow, they would vow eternity to each other, while she remained nothing but a spectator to a love she had longed for. Desperate, she devised a plan, one final chance to make him hers. A single drop of aphrodisiac, a carefully orchestrated encounter-she would take what was meant to be hers. But fate had other plans. In the darkness of her deceit, she fell into the arms of the wrong man. A ruthless, merciless, and identical in every way except for the shadows that clung to him like a second skin. Her trickery had backfired, and now, she was at the mercy of a man whose hunger knew no bounds. He devoured her, claimed her, and became intoxicated by her taste, scent, and the desperate, helpless moans she never intended for him. She had set a trap, but it was she who had been ensnared. In her desperation, she had tasted her own poison. And he had found a new obsession. *********************************** Started: March 22, 2025 Ended: April 21, 2025 Revised: August 2, 2025

El Vicente Series #1 (COMPLETED) Amberley Fedelin is a definition of a dauntless woman who shows full determination and straight up fearless. She lived her whole life in a circle of fun. Her family believed that great is for great and poor is for poor. The punish of love might seem so cruel but that's not a threat for some people. She believes that the consequences of love like pain and mischief is bearable and almost not possible for her when you fall in love. Love is almost like a paradise, love heals, she thought. But then again, is it really love... that will save us? Is love enough to heal us? Possibilities didn't scare her. The danger of Hunter Lucas Cullen didn't scare her at all. But is it really reality that 'we expect the unexpected'? Is it really the danger of the Hunt or the Amber Alert?

Brandish Eireen Varquez is one of the wealthiest clans of the Delafuentes, the "alpha" female of her generation who strikes a superior and powerful aura was forced into a fixed marriage she never wished to have. Her plan was to get away with him, to free herself from her mother's crazy ideas about taming her. She will do anything to ruin the marriage. How come Asiel, the motherfucker she hates the most, made her fall on her knees and tainted her name with his surname, which changed her life in just a snap?

Nalilimitahan nga ba ang bilang ng tibok ng puso para sa isang tao? Ang gusto lang naman ni Xei, isang estudyante mula sa Section I ng isang science high school, ay matataas na grades at tahimik na "crush" life. Tanggap naman niya na imposibleng magustuhan siya ng crush niyang sobrang nagpatibok ng puso niya sa una pa lang nilang pagkikita at heartthrob ng batch nila -- si Kyle. Pero magugulo ang tahimik niyang buhay nang dahil sa mga di inaasahang pangyayari: nang magustuhan siya ng kaibigan ni Kyle na si Chris, nang magustuhan ni Kyle ang kaibigan niyang si Rai . . . at nang mapalapit siya kay Kyle na mas nagpalala ng mga nararamdaman niya. Dito higit matututunan ni Xei na hindi lang basta-basta sinusunod ang tibok ng puso, lalo na kung may masasaktan -- kailangang pag-aralan din. Published by Summit Books under the Pop Fiction imprint © 2013 (translated in English). Now available in bookstores nationwide. Its anniversary version (with added content and special chapters!) is published by KPub PH © 2023.

WARNING: Mature Content | R18 STATUS: Complete (Enemies Series 1) Vernaise Sven Sarmiento, the eldest of the fourth generation of Sarmientos, was taught by her grandfather about the ongoing and never-ending issue among the three powerful families in the region. One of those is that Montecarlo's men fall for De Leon's women, and De Leon's men will always hopelessly fall for Sarmiento's women. It's like a spell, true and unbreakable, her grandfather said. And like a child, she always believed that it was real, especially when she thought she held the heart of one of the finest and most eligible men in the De Leon family. The truthfulness of that unwritten spell intensified it and overwhelmed her. But how far will she make herself believe if she is treated as an enemy? Will she still pursue and hope despite the hate and anger thrown at her for bearing the surname of an enemy? Just how far can she go to successfully DATE THY ENEMY?

Brent Iverson Azcona has no time for either life or love games. He hates delays because he treasures his time so much in a concise and preserved demeanor, but it all crumbled down as he started to indulge himself. Photo Credit Art Illustration by Janice Sung

"I thought I saw a witch laughing in the middle of wildfire, but it turns out she's a princess trapped in it."

You can read this as a standalone story! Cavanaugh #3 Kaleidoscope is a marine archeologist and a wreck diver. The unbothered, expressionless, and boyish girl with monolid eyes, short jet-black hair and skin of milky white. She has this personality characterizing boredom and emptiness. With just one blank stare from her, all girls would sway and boys would swoon. After all she have to go through with the rough waves of her life, she have controlled not to show emotions.

Adara Karisa Lois A. Cuestano