VinnieHealy
For fifteen years, Fray Lorenzo de Alcaraz believed his soul belonged to God and his loyalty to the Spanish Crown.
Sent back to the volatile Philippines to help crush a growing insurgency, his world is strictly black and white. The church is absolute. The rebels are heretics. And the law is unforgiving.
Until a ghost from his childhood steps out of the shadows, wearing the face of the enemy.
Isabel Magbanua is no longer the innocent girl who once taught a lonely, terrified Spanish boy how to speak in silence. Today, she is a hardened underground spy, fighting a bloody war against the very regime Lorenzo is sworn to protect. They are standing on opposite sides of a violent revolution. To him, she is a traitor. To her, he is the monster she has sworn to destroy.
But old vows die hard, even in the crossfire of war.
As the rebellion threatens to burn the country to the ground, they are pulled into a deadly game of espionage, duty, and a suffocating, forbidden desire. Lorenzo must face a devastating choice: uphold the sacred vows he swore to the heavens, or damn his own soul to protect the woman he was supposed to kill.
To love her is a sin. But to lose her is damnation.