Youth Series #1. Under the Fall of Leaves
Set in the far province of Negros, Maia Yvan Cañete dreams of a life beyond the sugarcane fields. Her ambitious mindset has somehow made it difficult to make more friends. Only ever finding solace in her only true friend-Reedevin Castillano, the silent and rich son of the hacienderos on the vast lands where her parents work.
Their unlikely bond draws doubts, but to her, it's only friendship-or so she tells herself. When the winds of their youth stir feelings she cannot name, she wavers between longing for him or chasing the life she believes she must. For a dreamer like her and a boy who has always had it all, love feels impossible.
Like some place she used to walk on the way home, traces of their youth became a yesterday to remember, unto different paths sharing the same memories of the fallen leaves of their childhood. And helplessly sometimes, she wants to take it all back then, under the fall of leaves where she first met him.
