Ashes of the Babaylan
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A modern-day female psychiatrist, descended from a line of powerful babaylan, wants to end her lineage by never marrying or having children. Meanwhile, the heir of a cursed, elite family must marry a babaylan or die before his 30th birthday. Their lives intertwine, triggering a reckoning with ancestral betrayal, spiritual power, and forbidden love.
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