4× Featured In the once peaceful town of Nueva Aurora, a string of gruesome murders shakes the community to its core. Victims are left heartless--literally-- after their organs are surgically removed. Science teacher Lorraine de Verra, with dreams of becoming a crime investigator, and her enigmatic colleague Zane Nuñez are thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. As they peel back layers of dark secrets, a sinister force with chilling ties to Lorraine's past lurks in the shadows, ready to strike. Time is running out, and the next heart could be their own. > Book cover by:@sulkytae ♡

Dr. Eloise Garcia didn't return to Nueva Aurora to chase ghosts, she came to save lives-and uncover the truth behind the tragedy that shattered her family and drove her away. A brilliant neurosurgeon with scars no medicine can heal, Eloise hoped a quiet break from Manila would silence the nightmares. She was wrong. A new apartment, a fresh start. It should have meant peace. But when she meets Hugh, an ex-journalist with a past as tangled as her own, that fragile calm begins to crack. Their connection, at first casual, turns complicated as a string of bizarre deaths grips the city-each one echoing details Eloise has spent years trying to forget. Victims marked with chilling clues. Codes that whisper of a buried conspiracy. Patterns that circle back to her-and possibly to Hugh. As the city pulses with secrets and danger closes in, Eloise must confront the ghosts she tried to outrun. Because this time, the truth isn't just waiting to be found-it's hunting her. And she'll need more than a scalpel to survive.