Mara Ilaya

Chapter 2: The Aftermath is now up.
          If you’ve been waiting for the moment everything shifts… this is it. ✨
          
          Read the newest chapter today. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/404672748?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading&wp_uname=MaraIlaya hmm
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✨ CHAPTER 1 IS UP! ✨
          
          Hi loves, this is the first official chapter of When Floréa Blooms and I’m so excited to finally share Clara’s world with you. 
          
          In this chapter, you’ll meet:
           Clara — tired, broke, sarcastic… but still hopeful
          ️ A Thursday night that feels a little too heavy
          ️ …and something unexpected that might change everything.
          
          If you’ve ever been in a season of “pagod na ako pero laban pa rin,” this one’s for you. 
          
           Comment after reading:
          What would YOU do if life suddenly gave you a second chance?
          
          Happy reading.
          
          — Mara Ilaya

There are stories that come to us softly —
          in heartbreak, in growth, in courage we didn’t know we had.
          
          ✨ Estaciones is one of those stories.
          A four-part interconnected series inspired by the seasons — not of weather, but of life.
          
          Each book carries a theme:
          
           Floréa — Spring
          A story of rebuilding, unexpected blessings, new beginnings, and the gentle bloom of love.
          
           Sierro — Summer
          A redemption arc — grief, healing, and learning to breathe again.
          
           Bruma — Autumn
          A warm and slow friendship-to-love story wrapped in jazz, comfort, and second chances.
          
          ❄️ Calia — Winter
          Success, loneliness, inner peace — and the terrifying, beautiful risk of choosing love again.
          
          These stories stand alone —
          but the characters will find each other
          just the way people do in real life: by accident, by timing, or by fate.
          
          And today, the first chapter of the first book begins. 
          
          Welcome to Estaciones.
          
          — Mara Ilaya

Hi, I'm Mara Ilaya ✨
          
          A first-time Wattpad writer, a believer of slow mornings, soft beginnings, and love stories that feel like real life — messy, healing, unexpected, and full of small miracles.
          
          I write about:
          ✔ women rebuilding their lives
          ✔ soft male leads with quiet strength
          ✔ found family & second chances
          ✔ coffee shops, life seasons, and fate
          ✔ kilig na may tama — hindi lang pampakilig 
          
           WHEN FLORÉA BLOOMS (Book 1 of Estaciones Series)
           Romance | Slice of Life | Healing | Found Family
          What happens when a tired single mom wins a lottery, moves to a new city, builds the life she once only wrote in the margins of her notebook — and unknowingly becomes next-door neighbors with a man raising his daughter alone?
          
          A story about rebuilding, blooming at 30-something, and realizing:
          Love doesn’t get late… it just waits for the right season.
          
          ✨ UPDATES: 2–3x a week at 6:15 PM PHT
           Add to library if you want to grow with Clara and Elias.
          
          If you're reading this — thank you.
          This is my first step as a writer, and I'm honored you're here.
          
           Welcome to Floréa.
          
          
          — Mara Ilaya
          Where stories bloom in the softest parts of life.