The Dictator's Desire [A Dark Romance Novel]

The Philippines has fallen.

After Caesar Vergara led a military junta and seized power, the nation slipped from democracy into an absolute dictatorship-reborn as The Gilded Pearl Republic. Vowing to cure a rotting country, he rules with an iron fist: silencing critics, executing the corrupt, and painting his reign as salvation. But not everyone believes his path leads to greatness.

Angela Mariana Lustre, a devoted social worker, refuses to abandon the marginalized in the shadow of his bloody regime. Once, she and Caesar were close friends in college-two dreamers bound by ideals. Then he chose the military, and she chose the people.

Now, Caesar owns the nation. But the one possession he craves above all power... is Angela.