Phenomenal Pen
Fantasy Novels
THE WORKS
Hi! Welcome to my raven. Yes, you heard that right. This is my raven. Or at least it is if you listen to the Mad Hatter in Lewis Caroll's Alice's Adventures inWonderland.
But since you neither resemble Alice nor look lost, I'll simply call this my writing desk. Go ahead and look over my shoulder to see what I've been up to. You can also offer some friendly comments because there's nothing I enjoy more than hearing from readers.
Without further ado, I present to you...
The Boyfriend App
GENRE: YA Contemporary Romance
Weeks before Valentine’s, seventeen-year-old Kate Lapuz goes through her first ever breakup, but soon she stumbles upon a mysterious new app called My Dream Boyfriend, an AI chatbot that has the ability to understand human feelings. Casually, she participates in the app’s trial run but finds herself immersed in the empathic conversations with her customizable virtual boyfriend, Ecto.
In a society both connected and alienated by technology, Kate suspects an actual secret admirer is behind Ecto. Could it be the work of the techie student council president Dion or has Kate really found her soulmate in bits of computer code? She decides to get to the bottom of the cutting-edge app. Her search for Ecto’s real identity leads Kate to prom, where absolute knowledge comes with a very steep price.
Boys Are Wolves
GENRE: Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy
HUNTER OR GAME. WHICH ONE ARE YOU?
Benjamin “Ben” Generoso is the brilliant mind behind Boys Are Wolves, the first and only breakup support app on the planet. It gathers and analyzes content freely available on social media and, with the help of an AI-powered virtual assistant named Kane, creates millions of personality profiles to discreetly reach out to girls trapped in toxic relationships.
As Boys Are Wolves gains traction, it becomes clear that the clientele isn’t randomly selected by an algorithm after all. The clients are linked, directly or peripherally, to the mysterious disappearance of a teen student of prestigious Enderun University three years ago. Who truly is Ben Generoso and what is his connection to the coed who is missing?
Zombie Arc: Fairy Tale Fail
GENRE: Sci-fi, Adventure, Fantasy
VILLAINS CAN BE HEROES TOO
History is thrown into absolute chaos when pioneering kidnap-for-ransom terrorist Ukhuna Khan gets hold of a time machine from the future. There's a pterodactyl with flame throwers, Vikings, Aztec priests, droids, and all sorts of temporally displaced characters.
Bored out of his mind with the safe zombie life, Arc is about to be swept up on an epic quest the likes of which the Multiverse has never seen. Tasked with the Herculean mission to save human existence, he is aided by a lovely but scarred witch and her cybernetically enhanced cat.
In a bygone world caught in the war between magic and modernity, nothing and no one is as they seem. Can Arc restore the fabric of the space-time continuum before the damage becomes irreparable?
Soul City
GENRE: Paranormal, New Adult
IT'S NOT A JOURNEY. IT'S A DESTINATION.
When Nate Esposito dies in a diving accident, he realizes he isn’t ready to leave everything behind, including his girlfriend and soulmate Samantha. He falls into an underworld prison where the only way out is through an eccentric reaper named Septimus Rex. As head reaper, Septimus leads an army of supernatural Crows tasked with the cold deportation of overstaying spirits from the human realm.
The fates smile on Nate because the head reaper has problems of his own. He has fallen in love with a mortal girl; an abhorrent sign of weakness that, if discovered by the Crows, will start a power struggle in hell. With Nate’s help, Septimus must now attempt to confess his feelings to the girl of his dreams so he can go back to being devoid of human sentiment.
Nate is reincarnated as a kitsune reaper and hatches an escape plan to the surface world. But he finds that things in the underworld are not what they seem and Septimus’ problems run deeper, somehow even linked to Nate’s own mysterious past.
Elemental Ninjas
GENRE: Adventure, Action, Fantasy, YA
FIGHT FOR LOVE. FIGHT FOR DESTINY.
Born into warring clans, wind ninja Sakura and fire ninja Temujin walk paths that couldn't be farther apart. But their separate worlds are thrown into chaos by the theft of Belshazzar's Scroll, an ancient relic that grants its possessor the divine right to rule over all the clans. To bring back peace to their lands, they must learn to fight together against a new breed of mystical half-human, half-demon warriors.
Proof that a blade of love can grow even in the harshest places, Temujin can’t help falling for Sakura. A ninja from the ice clan, Sasha, becomes his rival and seems to be a more suitable match for the beautiful wind ninja. Now, Sakura, Temujin, and Sasha stand in the heart of a conflict that shall decide the future of all the ninja clans.
Empathy's Edge
GENRE: Sci-fi, Dystopian
TWO LIVES. TWO WORLDS.
ONE COLLISION COUrSE.
(This story was inspired by the events surrounding COVID-19.)
On alternate-history Earth, society is divided into two groups.
The Synths a.k.a. the "Angels": lifelike androids with human consciousness; beautiful, rational and benevolent.
The Skins: ordinary humans who, either by choice or by necessity, don't have artificial bodies.
In this different yet all too familiar world, human connection is rapidly diminishing. The invasion of a mysterious new virus will change everything and everyone.
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SKYE is the Limit
GENRE: Sci-Fi, Adventure, LitRPG, YA
THE ONLY WAY OUT IS AWAKE.
Omni Systems, the world’s largest tech company, has discovered a way to combine lucid dreaming with the experience of RPG and virtual communities. They select five young adults from across the globe to take part in the trial run of the revolutionary technology, SKYE.
A backpacker, a pro gamer, a veterinary student, a fitness motivator, and a brittle bone disease survivor; these five individuals must learn to harness their imaginations and innate mana, which take the guise of guardian spirits called Anima. The Imagineers, as they’re fondly dubbed by the press, will journey through the highly unpredictable environment of their collective dream to meet a mystical character known as Atom the God of Creation.
My Dangerous Girl
GENRE: Thriller, Suspense, Romance, Humor
SO MUCH BEAUTY AND CRAZY... ALL IN ONE BODY!
Meet my girlfriend Amy: cute, demure and slightly amnesiac.
Meet my other girlfriend Mia: hot, aggressive and short-tempered.
Now, before you cyberbully me for being a player…
Meet my REAL girlfriend Amelia. She’s the girl of mystery who popped up as an exchange student in my university. She’s got state-of-the-art gadgets and a severe case of Dissociative Identity Disorder. That’s right. Amelia is sometimes Amy and sometimes Mia.
What’s the trigger between these two personalities?
A kiss.