Separata

"She would not survive this."

On the night of her wedding, Remedios Ilustre makes a decision that shatters everything expected of her. Bound to a powerful American official in colonial Manila, she abandons wealth, status, and safety-fleeing into the marshes at the edge of the city with nothing but a ruined dress and a body pushed past its limits.

She expects to die out there.

Instead, something finds her.

Hukay has lived in the margins for centuries-unrecorded, unnamed, and untouched by the emp...