The Last Light

Underneath the Danao Lake, ancient forces are stirring up, and the fate of one sister will rock the very core of not one, but two universes.

Benjamin and Alina Donaire keep their family's coffee plantation and YouTube channel running from the fabled Camotes Islands. They chronicle traditional farming methods for their expanding audience. It's a place where modern life meets ancient folklore. It wasn't until Alina saw some strange marks in a cave on their land that she learned she was born with the blood of the fabled binukot princess Nagmalitong Yawa.

Splintered into seven parts, dispersed over visible and invisible dimensions, Benjamin watches as his sister's soul, her own essence, shatters right before his eyes. In a Philippines where truth and myth blend, where legendary animals roam the highways alongside jeepneys, and where the mysterious depths of Danao Lake in the Camotes Island conceal long-lost secrets, he must now race against the clock to reach his destination.

Finding his sister's soul fragments is important to Benjamin, but he isn't the only one. Recognizing the binukot's blood in Alina's veins, an ancient force has awakened and will do whatever to seize her power for its own sinister agenda.

In The Last Light, Philippine mythology is interwoven with a modern-day story of fate, family, and those locations where the barriers of modernity crumble to expose the enchantment that has always lain dormant. With riveting suspense and intensely personal stakes, this novel updates Philippine legend for the modern era, making it ideal for those who enjoyed Trese, The Bone Witch, and When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain.