Six Rules Before I Die

Elara Ysabel Dela Cruz looks like an ordinary freshman at St. Ignatius University quiet, cheerful, and always smiling.

What no one knows is that behind her fragile frame lies a secret only her mother carries: Stage 4 Leukemia with severe anemia. Her days are numbered, and time is slipping away faster than she dares to admit.

Instead of surrendering to despair, Elara writes a list: Six Rules Before I Die. Six small wishes to make her life feel whole, even if it's slowly fading.

Then she meets Alaric "Rico" Montenegro the cold and distant Student Council president who despises his stepfather and hides his own scars. He is everything Elara shouldn't get close to. But fate has other plans.

As their worlds collide in classrooms, hallways, and hospital rooms Elara learns what it means to live, and Rico learns what it means to love.

But rules were made to be broken... and not every story gets a happy ending.