Lily Cole
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Where the Wind Meets the Dark
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In a quiet coastal village in 1670 Philippines, where the sea carries both trade and fear, strangers are not uncommon...but some are not meant to be found at all. Amara arrives with no past anyone can trace, claiming to be a distant cousin under the care of a young woman named Mireya. Curious, restless, and drawn to the unfamiliar, she embraces the fragile freedom of the human world...unaware that her presence has already disturbed something older than the forest itself. Lucian has lived among humans long enough to wear their habits like a second skin. By day, he is just another man in the village. By night, he belongs to something far more dangerous. He knows how to watch, how to wait, how to choose. And he knows exactly what happens to girls who wander too far. Amara should have been easy to ignore. She isn't. There is something in her that does not belong to the human world...something that calls to him, unsettles him, and refuses to be understood. And no matter how many times he decides to stay away, he finds himself drawn back to her... closer each time. As whispers of disappearances spread and shadows stretch deeper into the village, their connection becomes harder to deny...and more dangerous to pursue. Because some meetings are not accidents. Some are beginnings. And some are the kind that were never meant to happen twice.
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Of Wind, Want and Bone
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She only wanted to be seen. So she asked the wrong person to teach her how. Silawán showed Amihan how to soften her voice, where to place her hands, how to become the kind of girl a man like Ilyaon would finally notice. And she let him- because she had loved Ilyaon quietly, painfully, for as long as she could remember. But wanting is a dangerous thing to practice. Because somewhere between lessons and lingering touches, between almost-confessions and things they should not have felt- Silawán forgot he was only supposed to teach. And Amihan forgot who she was trying to be wanted by. Now every glance burns, every silence stretches too long, and every choice feels like a betrayal waiting to happen. She wanted Ilyaon. She learned from Silawán. But no one warned her what it would cost to be wanted back.
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Bound by Mystic Roots
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Twenty years after the forest claimed her parents’ fate, Tala has lived her life quietly at its edge—beloved by her village, watched by unseen eyes, and unaware that the forest remembers her blood. When a powerful noble arrives with a marriage decree she never agreed to, Tala’s peaceful world fractures. Datu Kael is everything she distrusts: commanding, dangerous, and tied to decisions made long before she was born. Yet the forest reacts to him with a violence it has never shown before, and Tala begins to fear that the real danger is not the man—but what the forest demands of them both. Guided by a mischievous Tikbalang and shadowed by ancient spirits, Tala is forced to confront a legacy she never asked for. As attraction simmers into something deeper and more dangerous, the forest tightens its hold, testing loyalty, love, and free will. To choose her own future, Tala must do the unthinkable: defy the forest that raised her. Because some loves are not chosen by fate. They are fought for.
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Where The Forest Chose Me
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I fell through a balete tree and into a world that should not exist anymore. A world of steel and fire, of spirits whispered into the soil, of kingdoms ruled by men who answer only to gods and blood. In this Philippines of the 1600s, the forest is alive—and it chose me. Rajah Alon is everything my world warned me about: a warrior-king bound by duty, sharpened by war, and utterly unmoved by a woman’s defiance. He believes I am a mystery the forest delivered for a reason. I believe he is a complication I cannot afford. But ancient magic does not care what either of us believes. As rival warriors circle, court politics tighten, and the babaylan speaks of prophecies best left forgotten, my presence begins to shift something dangerous—something that ties my fate to a kingdom I was never meant to save… or destroy. Desire becomes a liability. Power becomes intimate. And the forest watches. Because once it chooses you, it does not let you leave unchanged.
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