offdutywriter
Gabi Navarro has a habit of leaving before the lights go out. She's the girl who slips out of parties without a goodbye and moves across the country without a warning-not because she wants to go, but because she's terrified of being the one left behind.
Two years after fleeing Naga City for the chaos of Manila, she's back. Just as sudden, just as secret, and with four suitcases full of the life she couldn't quite make work. She expects the same familiar faces and the same old routines, but silence is a dangerous thing to leave behind for two years.
Among the flood of frantic messages from her cousins is a single, four-word text from the one person she never knew how to leave: "You're coming home?"
Now, Gabi has to face the ghosts she left in the rain at the Naga Cathedral. In a family that keeps their secrets close and their toxicity quiet, Gabi is about to find out that coming home is much harder than running away-and that some people are tired of watching her walk away.