Flora

Angelo Zamora is haunted. Not by the ghost of Balete Drive-but by the girl in his dreams. Every night, she calls him closer across a moonlit lake, her voice a silver thread tied to the scar on his ribs, a permanent reminder of the car accident that should have killed him.

Flora Esquivel is trapped. Murdered and buried beneath the ancient balete tree, her consciousness is woven into its roots, a specter forced to replay her trauma for terrified taxi drivers. She is drowning in silence, until she feels a resonance-a fractured boy named Angelo, whose life she secretly saved the night he almost died. He is the first person who can hear her, and she will use their dream-link to pull him into her world.

Desperate for answers, Angelo enlists his two best friends: JJ, the street magician with a connection to the occult, and Nyx, the artist who paints visions she doesn't understand. Together, they unravel the truth of Flora's murder and discover the shocking bond between the dead girl and the living boy. Guided by JJ's grandmother, a feared *mangkukulam*, they perform a forbidden ritual not to lay Flora to rest, but to bring her back.

The ritual works. But magic demands a balance.