The world was going to be hers. Or at the very least, Metro Manila was. Till 33-year-old Ilya Sebastian’s husband sent her a text meant for another woman. 

All of a sudden, giving up her career to take care of their twins and help her husband reach his corporate goals wasn’t the great idea it once was. Now, slapped with an annulment from her cheating husband, Ilya has to figure out how to regain the self she had lost amidst demanding preschoolers, overly curious fellow moms, and her seemingly unsupportive mother. 

Her life takes an even more unexpected turn when she meets endearing, charming, and absolutely hot David Francisco, the uncle of her twins’ best friend. He is single, a successful car shop owner, and a delight around kids. They end up bonding over preschool playdates, parent rep duties, and well, tumultuous love lives. Their unexpected encounters make her heart forget she had been hurt before. And hope that maybe she has a chance at happily ever after…again.

Ines Bautista-Yao is the author of One Crazy Summer (2011), What’s In Your Heart (2013), Only A Kiss (2014), When Sparks Fly (2016), All That Glitters (2016), Someday With You (2016), Swept Off My Feet (2017), Plain Vanilla (2016), My Quarantine Diary (2022), and My Lola’s Love Letters (2024). She teaches at the Ateneo de Manila University, edits the Jesuit magazine The Windhover, and is the former editor-in-chief of Candy and K-Zone magazines. She lives in the Philippines with her husband Marc, daughters Addie and Tammy, and dogs Cinnamon and Toffee.