Ating Pahina (Epistolary)

In 1877, as unrest brews in a small town under colonial rule, Señora Maria Kristina, daughter of the gobernadorcillo, finds her destiny bound by an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows.

Her husband, Heneral Agustino, is a man revered and feared, one who has vowed to devote himself only to the nation he serves and never to the uncertainties of the heart. Yet as whispers of rebelde violence spread and as betrayal from within threatens both his honor and his command, Kristina begins to glimpse the weight of his solitude and the price of the war he wages not only against his enemies but against his own guarded heart.

When danger strikes close to home, she becomes the one presence he cannot bear to lose.

Through the pages of Kristina's talaarawan emerges a story of restraint and awakening, of a woman who uncovers the grief hidden beneath her husband's armor, and of a man who learns that love may be the one battle he is unready to face.