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The Unclassified Hunter

Six months after a cataclysm called The Fracture cracked open the barrier between the living world and the Philippine spirit realm, nineteen-year-old convenience store worker Andres "Ando" Reyes finally gets his turn at the government's Awakener Assessment Center — only to receive the worst possible result. Soul Energy: undetectable. Class Path: none. Rank: Unclassified. Laughed out of the building and told to go home, Ando discovers what the system missed — his soul energy isn't absent. It's buried so deep that even Bathala's ancient failsafe couldn't read it. He cannot apply for the government's Awakener corps. He cannot join the underground networks that demand ranked status. He cannot walk into a monster rift with any backup. So, he walks in alone. No shortcuts. No cheat codes. No chosen-one destiny. Just a Filipino kid who refuses to stay at the bottom.

Healer of the Forgotten

The Shattered Bonds

Jina wakes in the body of Aurelia Draconis—the Empire’s feared tyrant—and inherits everything Aurelia left behind: a crumbling regency, forced soul-bonds that have already ruined lives, and a court eager to see “Aurelia” prove she’s still cruel. Jina refuses. She stabilizes what she can, pays for healing in her own blood, and treats her voice-born power as a last resort. That restraint becomes its own threat: a shadow faction called the Diadem, led by Severin, launches forged decrees, mobs, and assassins to force her into public brutality. When a natural soul-bond ignites—recognized as marriage the moment the mark appears—love becomes both anchor and leverage. Jina’s rule is tested by one question: can a throne be held without turning people into property? tag/vibe: dark fantasy romance (slow-burn), political intrigue, trauma-aware healing, “power as restraint,” bonds-as-battlefield, survival-to-throne escalation. Content Note: This story includes political persecution, coercion/forced-bond backstory (condemned), attempted murder/poisoning, and fade-to-black intimacy. No explicit on-page sex.

When Debt Collectors has Wings

This is a short story about a 41-year-old Marisol who died eating instant noodle at midnight. Alone. Skipping dinner to save money. And somehow, she didn't realize it was just the beginning of the worst week of her afterlife. She's stuck in the afterlife's broken bureaucracy with one impossible deal: collect three lost souls... or lose her second chance at life forever.

The Spy Who Sees Through a Monster Hunter

Mireya is a court spy who can steal sound. Stellan is a monster hunter who can see magic pulsing under skin. After a palace blast, their senses fuse—she sees through his eyes and feels his pain; he hears through her ears and tastes what she tastes. Now the palace wants them retrieved alive… because their “curse” isn’t an accident. It’s a blueprint. Hunted by altered beasts, trapped between duty and desire, and forced to trust the one person who can ruin them, they race to save Stellan’s sister—before the Crown turns their bond into a weapon meant to be bound… and bred.

The Union's Forge (A Foundational Grind Novel)

Haunted by her father's broken hands, a young union organizer must prove that compassion can be a strength when a cynical leader—armed with the painful lessons of his own past failures—attempts to transform their guild into a ruthless corporate entity, forcing a final vote that will decide the soul of the city's labor.

The Second Life of Ally Morrison

After dying at 52 full of regret, Ally Morrison wakes up in 2003 as her 29-year-old self-with memories of every mistake that destroyed her children's lives. Determined to break the cycle of trauma she once passed on, she vows never to chase love again. But when she meets Adrian Hale-gentle, patient, and everything she never believed she deserved-her second chance becomes more complicated than fate ever planned.

The Magical Minimum Wage: The Foundational Grind

In a city where magic runs on emotional labor, Leo Finch is done giving more than he gets. When the burned-out barista inherits his grandfather’s failing café, he expects dust, debt, and old regrets—not a sentient magical System built into the walls. The Bootstrap Protocol converts compassion and craft into mana, the city’s most precious energy source. Every act of kindness, every well-brewed cup, literally lights up the room. But the brighter Leo’s café burns, the more dangerous it becomes. The Metropolitan Mana Authority—a guild of corporate wizards—won’t tolerate a shop that proves empathy is stronger than profit. As inspectors close in and his small miracle threatens to collapse, Leo must decide what he’s really building: a business… or a revolution. With the help of a chaos-witch who refuses to follow recipes, a union rep who speaks in contracts and curses, and a community that refuses to quit, Leo rediscovers what his grandfather always believed—magic isn’t meant to be owned. It’s meant to be shared.

The CEO's Plot Armor

A stern, traditional Filipino CEO who secretly escapes his suffocating family duties through an epic fantasy novel series discovers his world unraveling when the messy, brilliant freelance writer he hired is the anonymous author he's been fangirling over online—and she's everything his family would never accept