SECOND CHANCE:FIRST BLUEPRINT

Second Chance: First Blueprint

She died holding her baby.

In Manila, Malia Victoria Roman died broken - her scholarship revoked, her family humiliated, her baby gone in her arms because a husband like Mark never learned how to care.

But fate gave her a second chance.

She wakes up at 20. Soaking wet in Agoo Town Plaza.
Rain pouring. In her trembling hands: a wet termination paper for her scholarship and a grade slip stamped with 5.00 and INC.

This time, Malia makes one vow: Never again.

She won't beg for love. She won't let a fake friend like Cheska poison her name. She won't let a failing slip write her ending.

With nothing but that wet grade slip and a borrowed T-square, Malia walks into Civil Engineering as a working student - and library assistant. Her enemies? Calculus. Physics. And every person who called her "wala nang pag-asa."

But she won't walk alone.

Enter Reuben Valera - DMMMSU Accountancy student, fellow library assistant, future CPA Top 4. The man who doesn't promise to save her.
He just stays. Through storms. Through rumors. Through the night she finally breaks in the circulation desk.

Will Malia build the future she deserves in La Union?
Or will the ghost of the baby she couldn't save in Manila haunt her second life?

From the rain-soaked plaza of Agoo to the sunsets of San Fernando.

For readers who love: Second chance | Campus drama | Slow-burn romance | Strong female leads | Quiet healing | DMMMSU | "He wasn't building a structure. He was worshipping at an altar."