Why Is Seventeen Called Seventeen Novels & Stories

"If happy ever after did exist, why do married couples split apart?" The same question Andrea Bartolome had in her mind when things between her husband, Mike Villaflor, started to be wrong. Her life with her husband is almost perfect. A doctor herself married a public school teacher; both of them are professionals in different fields. Sapat ang kinikita nilang mag-asawa para bigyan ng maayos na future ang anak nila. Yet things perceived to be almost perfect need to overcome an obstacle. Nagsimulang magkaroon ng lamat ang relasyon ni Andrea kay Mike when she started to doubt her husband having an affair with another woman. Sino nga ba ang kaisa-isang kontrabida ng mga mag-asawa kung hindi mga kabit lang naman. And that is something Andrea has been struggling with. Because of her desire to protect her family, how would a legal wife make a win over the mistress?

"Why the hell you care, Yeona? Remember, you're just my fuckbody, bed-warmer and slut secretary." - Yakero Del Fiero Isang highschool graduate lamang si Yeona Rodriguez na lumuwas sa Maynila para doon magtrabaho. Nagsisikap siyang kumayod para may maipadala sa pamilya niya na nasa probinsya. Hindi niya lubos akalain na sa Maynila niya pala makikita ang totoong kaguluhan sa buhay niya. Sa hindi inaasahang pangyayari ay mapagde-desisyunan niya na magtrabaho bilang sekretarya sa Del Fiero Company, kung saan naka-upo ang gwapong malibog at mapaglarong halimaw na CEO. Hindi niya rin akalaing dahil sa desisyong ito, tuluyang magbabago ang kaniyang buhay. Ano ang mangyayari kung sa isang pagkakasala ay tuluyan na ngang magbago ang kapalaran ni Yeona? How can she stay and survive the place with a beast, high-tempered and lustful CEO?

When struggling artist Elira Virel signs a secret marriage contract with billionaire CEO Kael Thorne, it’s supposed to be simple: no love, no expectations, no real commitment. Just six months of pretending to be his wife in exchange for saving her father’s collapsing company. But things stop being simple the moment she steps into his world — a world of power, cold stares, unspoken pain, and rules she’s not allowed to break. Kael is mysterious, guarded, and dangerously unreadable. Elira knows she’s just a pawn in his bigger game… but why does he look at her like she’s the only truth he wants to believe in? As secrets from his past begin to resurface — including the return of a woman who claims to be his former fiancée — Elira finds herself tangled in a web of lies, revenge, and emotions she swore she wouldn’t feel. She was never meant to fall for him. But in a world of lies, love was never part of the plan… Until it was.

Betrayal doesn’t just break hearts… it destroys everything you once called home. Married and devoted, Lorraine never imagined the cruelest betrayal would come from the two people she trusted most....her husband and her own sister. What started as a twisted request shattered everything. When she refused her husband’s demand, he didn’t just turn cold...he humiliated her, tore her down, and made her feel worthless… replacing her with the one person who should have never crossed that line. Broken and desperate to escape the memory of that night, Lorraine agrees to attend an exclusive annual beach party—one filled with power, danger, and men in uniform. It was supposed to be just one night. One night to forget. But everything changes the moment she sees him. Mysterious. Confident. Dangerously captivating. He isn’t in uniform, yet authority follows him like a shadow. And the way he looks at her… feels like both a warning and a promise. Driven by pain and reckless desperation, Lorraine makes a bold choice. A choice that will change everything. What was meant to be an escape turns into something far more dangerous. Because the man she chose for one night… …might be the one who rewrites her story. Or destroys her completely.

Rhian Santos, supposed to celebrate their Graduation on a Club but why does it goes wrong? The simple celebration turns to be steamy and intense night that wasn't her intention. That night she met the Business Tycoon Ryker Brown. The man who took her innocent, she just woke up beside him. It didn't end there on what happen between them. He proposed a deal with her, she declined it but her body tells otherwise. Everything was on the right place until her biggest fear happen! She fall inlove with him! And brings her to jeopardize that breaks her heart! Falling inlove with him was the thing she fear the most, cause she know's every part of him. He is heartless, a man who doesn't know how to be serious and always look at things like a business! Is there's still a chance that he would loved her too? Knowing that Ryker Brown the business tycoon has perception that 'Woman are just like contract that have an expiration'

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!

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?

– L A R K S T O N E S E R I E S – Daphne has always been a spoiled brat, born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Beneath her kindness lies an unpleasant attitude, and she’s used to getting everything she wants — whether she asks for it or not. But everything changes when Cromo enters her life. He is her complete opposite, living a life far different from hers. Despite their differences, Daphne falls madly in love with him. Yet Cromo despises her, showing no affection and breaking her heart every time he turns away. Confused and desperate, Daphne wonders: What’s wrong with her? Why can’t Cromo love her, even just a little? Left with no choice, she decides to tame her man by hook or by crook. In doing so, she commits the most outrageous act of her life — something no one would believe if they found out. Can Cromo endure a woman like Daphne? Or will his hatred eventually turn into love?

This story is about a woman named Maria, who is trapped and tortured inside of her own Manor. Every night they heard her screaming in agony from the intolerable pain they didn't know. They believed that Maria was tortured, raped and eventually murdered by someone but that was only their beliefs because they didn't know what really happened.Until a man name Thaddeus Ambrosio arrived at the Belle Veu Manor, he was forced by his father to check the Manor because he is the one who inherited the Mansion given by his grandmother, he has nothing to do with it. But his father was so persistent that's why he give it a try.But when he is in Belle Veu Manor his simple and peaceful life was changed when he saw a diary, the diary was owned by a woman named Maria.Will he unravel the truth of Maria's painful past and sufferings ? Will he able to help her to change the past? Or will he move on and mind his own business.But what if he will fall in love to that woman named Maria? Can love wins against the devil who cause Maria's sufferings?

Amadeus Zieg Asher “ Zieg ” at an early age he knew what was going on around him that is why he easily understood the meaning of life and death. Besides, being son of a mafia he also grow up with a hidden secret behind his always wearing tended shade. Whenever there is seeing his secret no doubt he kills it. Since his both parent passed away he has been assigned the job left by his father. One day he learned that he would lose everything his father had when he could not have a wife and an heir, that same day he was desperate with his right hand they came to a prominent bar. There he saw a poor lady crying and begging just to save her, he helped the lady in return he would make her as his fake wife who would save his father hard work. Will the lady be able to tolerate his strange behavior and dealings with it? Will there be love between the two of them? And in the end will he be able to tell it his true identity his best kept secret?