THIS IS A BL STORY! Jessie Massimo Valdez has always known how to disappear quietly. In a town that never truly felt like his, with a grief he's never dared to name, Jessie keeps his head down, his walls up, and his heart on lockdown. Summer isn't a season for him, it's a slow, aching memory of everything he's lost. Then came Rowan Anders Quirino Jr. Leather jacket. Big city mouth. A past he won't talk about and a smile that never quite reaches his eyes. He doesn't belong here, not with his cassette tapes and storm-chaser energy. And yet, somehow, he fits too quickly, too dangerously. Set in a sleepy coastal town in the Visayas during the summer of 2003, Somewhere Beneath the Sun is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance about grief, identity, and the way certain people arrive like sunsets, quiet, beautiful, and impossible to forget. To him, summer was a lifetime. To you, it was just a moment.