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A luxury wine tasting ends in silence when guests realize the red in their glasses doesn't just taste wrong, it tastes like that familiar taste of copper-blood. By the time the truth surfaces, someone is already dead. Filipino-American culture representation 🇵🇭 * * * Odessa Ramos makes a living traveling the world, evaluating wine, building reputations, deciding what's worthy of being poured, and eaten with what. Precision, control, and distance are how she survives. After being in two chaotic relationships that didn't end well, she's sworn off relationships...or at least, she thought. When a murder unfolds at a remote vineyard a few days before Valentine's Day, her exceptional sense of smell tells her something everyone else is missing. What was meant to be a celebration becomes a closed-door mystery, and suddenly she's surrounded by secrets, half-truths, and people desperate to keep the past buried. Enter the outgoing, free-spirited tour guide, multilingual, infuriatingly calm, and far too comfortable with uncertainty, Alex Alvarez. He moves through the world without plans or permanence-everything she avoids. Working together to unravel the truth forces her to confront more than the crime itself...including the parts of her life she's kept tightly controlled. With her sharp-tongued best friend, Jean Lopez, at her side, exes resurfacing where they don't belong, and memories triggered by scent she can't outrun, she must decide what's more dangerous: uncovering the truth, or continuing to live acting as if distance is the same as protection.

A novel you can enjoy as a pure romance love story, or-if you wish-a sociopolitical critique of the developing world, alongside an inspiring spiritual journey of the humble, resilient everyday hero. An emotionally powerful narrative achieving its objectives through its Trojan Horse structure: A high-performance Ferrari of absolute, hidden power... disguised in white denim and sneakers. A meticulously crafted story of multiple layers and highly nuanced subtext. Logline When Filipino American Cris and rural beauty Anna are drawn into a ten-day whirlwind romance, their short summer together unfolds as a love story for the Philippines, and years later, blossoms into a love story for God. ..... A deeply emotional romance novel... that absolutely subverts romance. ..... Synopsis "Orange, the Color of Sunset" explores the volatile, whirlwind relationship between Cris, a derisive, Manhattan-raised son of a powerful Philippine senator, and Anna, an academically accomplished yet fiercely guarded intellectual powerhouse rooted in her provincial community of Ilocos Norte. Their rapid summer romance escalates into intense ideological battles, reflecting deep class disparity, socio-political third-world corruption, and the resilience of the marginalized masses. Despite their abrupt and painful separation, their time together forces both characters toward significant personal transformation, in the hopes that, one day, their love may yet endure, for they are "just on Earth." ..... Orange, the Color of Sunset © National Library of the Philippines (NLP) Copyright

Two young girls experience conflict with their brothers, who do not allow them to join in on their adventures.

A girl disguised as a boy. A pro esports team hiding secrets. And a rule that was never meant to be broken-No Girls Allowed. Jordan is a Filipino-American gamer chasing a dream her parents never wanted for her. Getting recruited was never supposed to happen, and losing her spot isn't an option. There's just one problem. No one can know she's a girl. As Jordan rises through high-pressure matches and sudden fame under a false name, cracks begin to form inside the team. A former insider is quietly sabotaging their success, and the closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous her secret becomes. Caught between the best friend who's protected her since childhood and the team captain who's falling for someone he was never supposed to meet, Jordan must decide how far she's willing to go for her dream-before the truth comes out and destroys more than just her career. Updates Every: Tuesday and Fridays Part of the Crossroads Universe

All Carlos wants is to nurse the heartache of a recent breakup, but when his sister pressures him into spending the day with his goofy nephew Diego, Carlos discovers Diego could be the key that frees him from his rut and unlocks the door to true love. * * * * * Carlos can think of countless reasons to avoid hanging out with his ten-year-old nephew, Diego: Girl Scout cookies that need to be eaten, a twenty percent chance of rain, and the fact Diego enjoys listening to Rascal Flats. Most importantly, though, a recent breakup has Carlos wanting to hole up in his apartment all by his lonesome. But when Diego's mother refuses to let Carlos off the hook, he takes Diego on a day trip through L.A. that results in spirited debate and a soul-crushing predicament. Even though Carlos takes this opportunity to help his nephew navigate the challenges of childhood crushes and growing up, he discovers Diego may have his own lessons to teach about life and love. [[word count: 3,000 words]]

Y/N and her best friends Ariana and Kiane are headed to a thrashing metals concert. However, since none of their parents know about it and none of them can afford tickets, they're just gonna hang out in the parking lot. But that's cool, because Rodrick Heffley, who Y/N met on a class trip to the Culinary Institute, is also going to be there with his bandmates.

TagLish!!! (Tagalog-English) The FIRST one to be exact,this is about the Filharmonic,an acapella group formed in the NBC's The Sing-Off which is an acapella battle type of...tv show.... The Filharmonic is a Fil-am acapella group that normally had 6 members but due to some particular reason one member left and so the current no. of their group is 5. let's see how life changed for them...but. A supper fan, Ma. Isabela Cortez has some exemptions with the group.... WARNING; THIS IS ALL FICTIONAL AND CHARACTERS(WELL SOME) ARE ONLY IMAGINARY AND AREN'T REAL AND ONLY MADE UP OF THE AUTHOR'S IMAGINATION!!!

To achieve her dreams of being part of the medical field.. and to connect with her roots, a young Filipino-American travels to the Philippines but falls in quite a complicated relationship. Nakakatawa ba ang fateplaying sa kanya? Or is she just a little too "dayuhan" to understand?

xx "You better watch out Nick Anderson. You'd be so in love with me that it's my turn to break your stupid heart. That's The Promise I'm gonna keep." xx When it comes to love, people act dumb and stupid around them. Jane Edwards got her heart broken for falling at the school's most popular guy, Nick Anderson. During Valentines Day Jane confessed her feelings for Nick, but he humiliated her in front of his friends, because Jane was then Overweight, because of it, she then transferred to another school. A year later, Jane finally caught Nick's eyes and he finds his way for her to talk to him. Would Jane forgive him after what he did? Or is it finally her turn to break him?

This is a real story. I want to share my experience all about having a boyfriend in long distance relationship. Yeah maybe some of you find it's stupid but sorry I can still wait to see him in person. I can update you everyday(depends on how many people reading it). Enjoy reading. =) =SUNSHINE=

A chapbook.

Nick...a Fil.am 16 year old who's going to be in college next school year but her mom cannot take her to college due to lack of money... Then she met the guy Nicolas in Facebook..but Nicolas thought that Nick is a guy..so Nicolas treated her a boy..He didn't know that Nick had a crush on him until they met in a one place and get know each other...

Lovely: Adj. Exquisitely beautiful "You are lovely. I love you." "You are lovelier. I love you more." What happens when a Filipino-American from Boston, Massachusetts meets the notorious Min Ho in her sophomore year of high school? Will they prevail?

What happens when a nerdy, hopeless girl falls in love with a hunk with brains? She realizes that she has no chance with him because of her insecurities. She thinks so low of herself which makes her invisible to him. This is the story of Leanne and Jeremiah. Find out if their love love story will prevail.

Everything is better fried. Vanessa Harper firmly believed this, but she hasn't allowed herself to eat anything fried for seven years. She wasn't going to start now. Not even if it was her favorite snack offered to her fresh by her crush with his megawatt smile. Maverick Evangelista volunteered to man the class booth for the Multicultural Food Festival. Any excuse to show off his cooking skills and eat his favorite after school snack, okoy, really. He knows it's a foolproof recipe-Filipino crispy deep-fried fritter made with various vegetables, who can resist? Apparently, Vanessa Harper. They've sold out two batches and she has not tried a single bite. Will he be able to break her out of her shell and get her to take a bite? Written for the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month Contest hosted by WattpadAsianFiction, WattpadAsianFantasy, WattpadFusion, and WattpadMulticultural, using YARomance's prompt. Submitted on May 11, 2023 Word count: 2,497

Free Fall - the condition of unrestrained motion in a gravitational field. -- 'I'm a surgeon, being emotional makes you weak and I can't save my patients if I am. Nonetheless, I became one and I let her in. I fell for her. And I fell too hard,' -Liam Matteo 'I'm a businesswoman, being indecisive is a weakness that could put my team at risk. Nonetheless, I will always end up doing what's best for the company. What's best for me,' -Liane Carson Jillian Carson trains as her cousin's replacement once he gets promoted as the CEO of their company. Making timely decisions is her forte, which is why she was assigned for this job in the Philippines. In this journey, she meets new people, friends, and William Matteo, a neurosurgeon. She is fascinated by his saving of lives. He is fascinated by her fascination. But would it be a good thing to match two alphas?

Ava Ballesteros is the girl who never talks-people think it is for no reason.But the reality is,she can see the world in ways that other people can't.Can she help save the world?

Joshua Choi has been Navii Caliano's academic rival from first grade to their now junior year of high school. The two have always been stuck together in the same class; causing them to always be at each others' throats for years now, the feud is everlasting. With both Navii and Joshua being voted as their classes class presidents it only adds more fuel to the fire; causing there to be more class debates and bickering than usual. Even if the two have worked together because of their shared class president duties and they've known each other since elementary, they've never had serious deep conversations with each other-- the three main topics of their conversations with each other are: school, who's right/wrong, and who's better than the other. But, with the recent school cultural festival coming up soon, both Navii and Joshua have been spending more time together after school than usual. every day the two meet to talk about their plans for the festival and the event they must hold for their class. With this extra time spent together, they both open up more-- letting their vulnerability spill out, and seeing the other in a new light. will the vulnerability cause them both to see that they're no different from each other? or will it add an awkward impact on their 'just a rival' relationship? YA academic rivals to lovers trope </3