✓On-Hold
2019
"She died on 1945."
Ysabela Javier, a college graduate student from America uses to go back in Manila not just because the end of spending her time studying in a medical course here. Her family holds an exclusive hospital around Manila that was led by his father.
Unfortunately, the relationship between them was just like a broken glass, that never been taken as whole because of the tragedy that cuts the bond of her family.
She usually believes that it's so frustrating dealing with the routine of life, happening again and again, that causes her to unfold the truth behind those phenomenon tied with chaos.
Until she realized things that were difficult to explain.
Ysabela yearns to travel back on the past that was covered by the lifeless body of innocent people, victims of the deathly effects of the second world war for about three years that slashed the stability of our country.
Through this, she experiences body-switching with a girl named Lucia, who originally existed on the time when Ysabela travels back on the past.
The two should prevent the tragedy happened in their lives by remembering the death of Lucia in the holocaust of 'Battle of Manila' on 1945. And, the miserable life locking Ysabela to discover the mysteries behind these.
Those questions tricking her mind with the some twist of fate, could be answered in the prestigious Walled City of Manila, Intramuros.
De Avila Series #1
"Wattys 2022 Grand Prize Winner"
Known as the most stubborn and troublemaker daughter of the De Avila family, nothing stops Socorro from pursuing her dreams and passion for writing. Despite living in the 19th century, she believes women can also do great things like men. Being the next daughter to be sent off to an arranged marriage like her older sisters, she's now determined to create her destiny and break every single custom of what a woman was taught to do. She earns money by writing love letters as a ghostwriter. Everything seems to work according to her plan until she meets a young nobleman who can catch her lies and make her feel the love she thought only exists in books.
Book cover design by @mariya_alfonso
Language: Filipino
Date Started: October 31, 2021
Date Finished: June 18, 2022