Fi Legaspi is living the dream working in Seoul as a road manager for one of South Korea's hottest bands, East Genesis Project. Until she isn't.

When she finds herself in the middle of a scandal and a hostile fangirl witch hunt, Fi seeks the comfort of home, and to her surprise, not the person she had been pining for for years. All too suddenly it's no longer her career on the line, but also her heart. Will she walk away from everything that matters to her or fight to keep her dream alive?

Content Warning: cyberbullying, slutshaming, workplace discrimination, physical assault

Scandalized (BackstagePass #1)

A Kpop band manager gets involved in a scandal with the band leader, and fandom chaos ensues.

What does it really take to be a champion?

When East Genesis Project’s Jo Yihwan reluctantly pinch-hits for injured band mate Steven Bae in a reality TV-slash-talent competition, he decides he’s only in it to win. After all, he is representing his band, and the All-Kill Champion title had some handsome perks attached to it.

But he didn’t expect to meet a gutsy, driven teammate like Ha Yoojung, or feel drawn to her incandescent spirit week after week after week. He didn’t expect her to be carrying a devastating secret that could cost them the grand prize, either.

What starts as a competition becomes so much more. With careers, a long-held dream, and honor at stake, can Yihwan and Yoojung’s hearts survive?

Content warning: car accident on Chapter 0, sexual assault (backstory), cyberbullying, sexism, slutshaming, victim-blaming

Play It By Ear (Backstage Pass #2)

A hesitant idol and an idol trainee are paired up for a new talent-slash-reality TV show.

Moving to Seoul for a job at an entertainment company has made a self-reliant woman out of Filipina. But when she gets injured in an accident and her boyfriend, Gabriel, proposes she move in with him until she’s back in shape, Fi reluctantly gives up her independence
in favor of some TLC.

What happens when being under one roof ignites the desire she has been firmly keeping underneath the surface? Will she up and leave, or decide to stay?

This is a Backstage Pass B-Side.

Content warning: This book follows #romanceclass guidelines requiring HEA/HFN, and is heat level 3 (on-page sex).

Stay With Me (Backstage Pass #2.5)

Temporarily moving in with her boyfriend creates a dilemma for Fi, who is forced to confront her desires.

At twenty-three, theatre actress Erin Javier has yet to fall in love or kiss a boy offstage, away from the klieg lights. She is the perfect leading lady—whose heart men would fight for, win, and protect—unfortunately, only until the curtains fall and the lights go down. In real life, Erin is a certified NBSB whose heart has been hoping for a song to dance to.

But when two (two!) men enter from stage left and right, Erin is confused. Who deserves to take center stage in her heart—Mr. Theatre Royalty whose attention and displays of affection make her pulse race, or a good friend whose steady support has helped steer her to success and fulfill her dream?

Waiting in the Wings

A single-since-birth theatre actress wants to explore the dating scene, and the universe offers up two eligible bachelors.

It's all fun and games until someone catches feelings.

If there's something Pio Alvez is good at, it's pretending to be someone he's not. On stage and on-screen, the actor has mastered the art of becoming the characters he plays, and his new role should be no different. After all, how difficult would it be to pretend to be smitten with a beautiful, intelligent go-getter like Audrey Alonzo?

Perhaps it's more difficult pretending not to be.

Content warning: This book follows #romanceclass guidelines requiring HEA/HFN, and is heat level 3 (on-page sex).

Like Nobody's Watching

After suffering a recent heartbreak, an ad executive asks a charming actor to pose as her boyfriend at an office party.

With a job that she loves, an adorable senior dog, and a baby she fought hard to conceive on the way, life is going well for thirty-one-year old school teacher Kalila Rayos. That is, until her ex-boyfriend and first love, filmmaker Datu Alvez asks if they could try again.

Saying yes shouldn’t be too difficult. After all, she’s still also in love with him and Datu’s efforts to be there for her make her feel she truly has it all. But on top of her worries as a soon-to-be mom, a crisis that hits her school forces her to shift her priorities away from her own desires.

Will the one who got away be strong enough to stay, or will their second chance at love crumble and break her heart once more?

Content warnings: miscarriage (backstory), casual sexism, and verbal and physical abuse from a parent.

This book follows #romanceclass guidelines requiring HEA/HFN for romance, and is heat level 3 (on-page sex).

Keeping Miss Kalila

Daycare teacher Kalila is pregnant via IUI when she meets her first boyfriend again, and he shakes up her world when he confesses he wants her back.

What If We Fall In Love? is a collection of stories about what ifs that get answered, what ifs that end with happy ever after.

What if you had a chance at love?

Let it be known that Manuel La Rosa had always found Jamia Damiles beautiful, and not only in a breathtaking, how-are-you-even-real kind of way. He also found her smart, competent, and funny—you know, completely out of his league.

But when she agrees to be his fake girlfriend for his cousin’s wedding, Manuel slowly realizes Jamia might be within his reach after all.

Starting a food truck business isn’t easy—just ask Paz Laban, who almost burned down her truck on opening day. Thankfully, help was nearby, and it came to save the day wearing a tight shirt and a familiar face.

They call him Coby now, but to her, he will always be Jako: the shy and lanky son of the Galarosas, who lived across their street in her hometown in Bicol. Little does she know that to him, she’s the unattainable crush…and now he’s ready to shoot his shot.

Five years ago, college friends Aki Buenaventura and Bonnie Salvador made an unwritten pact to get married if they find themselves single at thirty-five. It all seemed like a forgotten promise until an ISP fail leads work-from-home employee Bonnie to knocking on Aki’s door and asking to spend a few days at his apartment.

When proximity and the rush of fond memories force Aki to confront his long repressed feelings, will he finally muster the courage to take the leap?

Content warnings: This book follows #romanceclass guidelines requiring HEA/HFN, and is heat level 3 (on-page sex).

What If We Fall In Love?

What if your "what ifs" do not remain "what ifs," but end up getting the answers you've always wanted?

When she's not drowning in spreadsheets and Zoom webcasts or bingewatching KDramas, Tara Frejas likes to write down the stories that fill her daydreams. Self-publishing since 2015, she has so far written 13 books (including collaborations), all available in both print and digital formats. Her current dream, however, is to make coffee...for the cast and crew of the movie or TV series adaptation of her books.

Tara Frejas

Romance books in digital format by Tara Frejas | Latest release: What If We Fall In Love? (a short story collection)