Heaven Fleur Devecca bears a large scar down her face, neck, and arm from an explosion that also killed her parents. Once a child of wealth and beauty, she grew up in poverty and was feared as a "monster" by her neighbors. After her uncle took her from the orphanage, her life became a Cinderella story of cruelty-forced to work as a housemaid and janitress, treated as little more than a human ATM.
Helios "Hell" Lysandros Barrinuevo is a remorseless psychopath and surgeon, born into the ruthless Barrinuevo mafia family. They traffic drugs, guns, and humans, treating murder as casually as swatting ants.
One fateful night, Heaven witnesses a horrific killing that intertwines her fate with Hell's. Living under the same roof, they inhabit two worlds that cannot mix: angel and demon, saint and sinner, good and evil.
Will Heaven fall to hell despite discovering Hell's role in her parents' death? Or will Hell ascend to heaven to seek redemption and kneel before Heaven for forgiveness?
Determined to give her grandparents a better life, Rivka leaves Paraíso de Solandis, only to find herself working as secretary to Thiago del Rio, the powerful chairman whose empire is the very reason she was forced to seek a new beginning.
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Rivka Asena Portalez wants to escape. From the past that haunts her, from the people determined to break her, from the pain that refuses to fade. But fate has other plans. It leads her straight into the arms of Thiago del Rio, the chairman of the country's largest gold-mining empire. For the first time, Rivka dares to hope that someone might save her . . . maybe even love her. But everything shatters when a tragic mining accident entwines their families in the worst possible way-her grandfather and Thiago's father caught in the devastation. Forced apart without a word, Rivka and Thiago disappear from each other's lives, carrying nothing but heartbreak and unfinished fire. Years later, destiny strikes again. And the moment their eyes meet, they realize the fire between them never died.
DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish.
COVER DESIGN: Louise De Ramos