The One That Got Away Novels & Stories

Maxine Valencia, a hardworking lady from a well-known company got promoted shortly after joining a year ago. With that, workmates of her started getting jealous and suspicious of how was that possible. While celebrating in a bar with her workmates, they started making accusations or theories that are over the line. That made her very uncomfortable resulting her to accept the dare that will change her whole life with a blink of an eye. Proud and powerful.. That's what she felt after succeeding. But as time passes by, some things got confusing for her. She was brought into a mess and she isn't allowed to escape from it.

Jela Anderson is a billionaire's daughter who dreamed to become a famous author someday. But, she is shattered from not being accepted and appreciated by anyone but her mother who's wholeheartedly loves her. Jela's father is not a good man, he loathes her and mistreated her mother. Until one day, Jela's mother died into a car accident. Devastated, she runs away from their house and find another place to lived.The one who finds and help her is the Surgeon Doctor named Alastair Hernandez, who takes her home. She start living as his sister. Jela decided to undergo on a plastic surgery with the help of Doctor Hernandez. She become more beautiful on her new face. Then, one day, Jela meets again her father and stepmother. Her anger towards them become more intensified. None of them recognise her. That's why, it's easy for her to execute her brilliant plan...to retaliate against them!

Abigail is unlucky when it comes to family. She is an orphan. Her family abandoned her when she was just five years old. When she was eight years old, she was adopted by a family, and since then she has done anything to please them. When she was about to get married, her groom left her for her best friend. To her surprise, there was a man who took the position of her new groom. Then, she got married to a man whom she had never met before. But when she finally got to know him, is this her new luck in life or another unlucky beginning of her now married life?

Isabella Ferrera becomes a substitute bride on her own wedding day when the woman her groom loves runs away. Married to billionaire Matteo Conti, she spends five years living as a ghost—unloved, ignored, and blamed for a betrayal she never committed. While Matteo clings to his first love, Isabella endures his cruelty in silence, until she finally leaves without a word. Only then does Matteo uncover the truth behind the runaway bride—and realize too late that the woman he pushed away was the one who truly stayed. Regret is all he has left.

In the elite circles of Angeles, Pampanga, where reputation is everything and love is often a luxury, Elara Villanueva agrees to an arranged marriage with Lucas Del Rosario to save her family’s crumbling perfume empire—but the moment she steps into his world, she is irresistibly drawn to his guarded older brother, Adrian. As stolen glances turn into dangerous emotions, loyalties begin to fracture: her best friend Mira is in love with Adrian, while secrets within the Del Rosario family quietly surface. What begins as a perfect arrangement spirals into betrayal, heartbreak, and a truth no one is ready to face. When everything explodes just days before the wedding, Elara is forced to make an impossible choice between duty and desire. In the aftermath of shattered expectations, she walks away from the life chosen for her—only to discover that the kind of love worth fighting for is the one you choose, even if it costs you everything.

Addison Bartolome, that is her name. She is a pediatrician in one of the most prestigious hospitals in the country - Anderson Medical Center, and not only that she is one of the busy doctors of the hospital. She has three friends that have a distinctive disposition that makes her make them her family. She is the Ms. Know-It-All in the group since her friends often approach her for advice. As she helps her friend, he met a mysterious man with a big problem. She forces him to tell him her problem so that she can help him. A man that she helped too, not knowing who he is and what he does. She cures little kids, she helps her friends through her advice, and she helps the man that she doesn't even know, but among those, she loves doing it. She already got what she wants in life. She became a doctor and has friends that made her family. What could possibly go wrong in her life? What more can happen in her so-called perfect life? Or is her life really what we called a perfect life? TAGLISH [The Women Series] © michiekelss

Being the breadwinner in the family is a big responsibility. Izabela Oceania Calvez applies to work as a cashier at a club since she needs a job badly. She heard a lot of harsh words, but she chose to ignore them. One morning, when she was browsing the internet, she came across an advertisement for a candidate to work as the new CEO's secretary for a renowned textile company. She made an effort to apply. But when she happened to see the CEO of the company having sex inside his office, she immediately backed out of her interview.But she was taken aback when she got a call from the company informing her that her application had been approved. If they didn't interview her, how was she accepted? And worst of all, will she agree to the CEO’s proposal to be her part-time lover for ten million pesos? Will she accept it for the sake of her family?

Denise Tantoco has the perfect life that anyone could have wished for.She has a successful career, supportive family and friends. To top it allshe was also engaged to marry her gorgeous and hotshot long timeboyfriend-James Lopez.Ngunit isang gabi ng pagkakamali ang babago sa takbo ng kanyangbuhay. On the night of her bridal shower, she got so drunk and ended upsleeping with the hired macho dancer of the said event.Little did she know that the said one night stand could lead her to asituation that can turn her perfect and quiet world upside down. Lalo naat madidiskubre niya na ang nakaulayaw niya pala noong gabi na iyon ayhindi basta-basta macho dancer lang kundi ang isa sa pinakamayaman atmost eligible bachelor ng bansa na si Joaquin Del Mundo.

Arra, a young girl from the city was forced to live with her estranged father in a far away place after her mother passed away. She never thought that her life would be changed in her new environment. She meets the two popular and handsome students in her new school, the playful Cliff Aragon and the serious student and mysterious Shan Lark. These guys' family hated each other for decades that's why they can't get along. Cliff and Shan befriend her with their own purposes but only one goal, and that is to kill the divine lady. One is to avoid a big catasthrope that possibly happens in the future that could bring down his family. while the other one is to make sure that this catasthrope will surely happen that could benefits his family after killing her. But what if these two guys would not fulfill their missions but instead falls for Arra and protects her from possible danger? Who would Arra choose to love among these two guys and be together at the end? How will she copes once she knows her real identity as a Divine Lady that everyone wanted to kill?

Ellian kiel Alcovendas, a prominent name in the business industry. He is a young C.E.O of their own companies. He is known for being ruthless, heartless and a perfectionist. His deadly presence will probably scare the hell out of you. His words are powerful. He can kill you in a single word. But, all of these were all because of his past that severely broke his internal self. His heart is full of vengeance. He is eager for revenge. He will destroy their family’s biggest competitor who were the reasons for their family’s biggest downfall before. He will have his revenge in any ways possible. Even if he has to do his most hated word, kindness. Dahliah Sandejas, a young and innocent woman who worked very hard for the family who helped her get through a loathful past. She’s innocent from any of her biological family’s foolishness and crimes. She’s considered as the blacksheep of her biological family. She is very different from her relatives. She has a heart. All she wants is to live a simple and peaceful life. But, faith has its own way of dictating her life. She’s the chosen one to suffer all the pain. The pain that is all because of her biological family. This isn’t a love story because only one person got to fall in love and the other one doesn’t. Or he did?