Seventeen-year-old Alexa Zamora looks as if she’s always been the beautiful and graceful center of attention. If you knew her in grade school though, you’d remember a sad little girl, who had lost her parents, and spent most of her time on the martial art arnis—a rough sport, not something girls were supposed to like. If you knew her then, you might have ostracized her for it.

She learned from this mistake, and has done her best to hide all traces of her sport and skill in a new school, and now she’s New Hope Academy’s It Girl. But transfer student Theo Guevarra, who happens to be her old arnis buddy and first love, arrives and makes her question the life she’s been living. How long can she keep up appearances, before it all falls apart?

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It is Sia Valencia’s ultimate wish to become a full-fledged published writer. But with her seventh rejection, this time from Liberia Publishing, she might as well bid goodbye to that dream and say hello to a life at law school, a life her dad has been planning for her ever since she was young. To make things worse, Marc Ramirez, her obnoxious classmate from high school, turns out to be the brother of the publishing editor who rejected her work. 

But the editor sees potential in Sia and her work, and thinks it would be a shame for such passion to go to waste. So he gives her one more shot: she has to write a novel in one week, provided that she spends that same week with Marc. 

Seven days with the insufferable Marc Ramirez, but a chance for her novel to get published. How far is Sia willing to go for her dream?

Fresh from the medical boards, Sage is determined to get into the prestigious neurosurgery residency program at Sta. Gianna University Hospital. Unfortunately, only one first year will be accepted, and for that slot, she has to compete with Rainier, son of the renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Acosta.   Pre-residency finds the two of them going head-to-head in a showdown of knowledge and skill, but Sage and Rainier soon realize that the coveted residency slot isn’t the only thing they want anymore: They also want each other. 

This collection also includes the following stories:

• THE DAYS OF RAIN AND FLOWERS BY EK GONZALES (there is only one bed, friends to lovers, Heat Level 3) 

• FINALLY HOME BY CELESTINE TRINIDAD (friends (research partners) to lovers, second chance romance, Heat Level 0) 

• STATUS: IN A FAKE RELATIONSHIP BY SUZETTE DE BORJA (friends to lovers, fake dating, Heat Level 3)