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The carnivorous ways of the Aswang leave little room for love - much less a forbidden one between a queen and human girl. Little did Aswang Queen Catarina know, soon, her life would be changed by a plucky American biologist. A blue eyed, blonde adventurer, Rose Smith from California, who would make Catarina question all she knew, and want to make a human Her Aswang Woman King. ___ Catarina Rosales Marquez, 26, is the Aswang Queen of the Domminga Mountains, but she abhors eating humans. She has genetically engineered the fruits of her goddess Ikapati to produce human proteins in order to bring peace to Mindanao - but the Aswang do not trust this revolutionary, peaceful Queen - and are wary of the American biologist she has taken under her wing. Rose Smith is a German-American biologist doing her dissertation on the elusive, endangered Phillippines Eagle. Having studied the Tarsier in her undergraduate semester abroad in Manila, she fell in love with chicken adobo, pandesal - and Filipina women. Eager to be the first American biologist to do a longitudinal study of the Phillipines Eagle, she sets out into the Domminga Mountains on a bus with a one-way ticket - not afraid of the local's warnings of the rabid Iktapati Aswang Clan that eats humans, and roving bands of Tikbalang werehorses that stampede trespassers to death. When Catarina and Rose collide, it is oil and flame. Catarina, expected to marry a King, finds herself questioning the very cosmos of relationships - can she take a Queen, and a feisty American grad student at that? And can Rose come to terms with the elusive, seductive courts of the Vampiric Aswang? When the Iktapati clan rebels, the Tikbalang war, and the wind spirits coquette, Rose and Catarina must team up to save the humans of Mindanao - and the Phillipines eagle!

Brazinn Ybeguile Sebastian is an adventurous city girl who loves to travel and discover new and interesting things. She will do whatever she wants to do and be whoever she wants to be just so she could follow her guts. On the other hand, someone is looking after Brazinn without her knowing. That someone is waiting for her to comeback and he's watching her from afar, longing for her presence for such a long time. What if they'll both be trapped in that dangerous place called Suicidal Forest? Would the world give them chance to know each other and survive or they'll die in a tragic way. This story includes Philippine mythical creatures which believed to be true for some mysterious reasons such as; Diwata, Sigbin, Kapre, Duwende, Bakunawa, Tikbalang etc. To be exact, this Novel is consisting of some supernatural happenings.

Bilang isang mamayang Filipino, gaano mo kakilala ang bansang Pilipinas. Hanggang saan ang nalalaman mo pagdating sa ating nga kultura at tradisyon. Ilan sa mga natatanging kuwento at hiwaga ng ating bansa ang iyong nalalaman. Panahon na upang tuklasin ang ugat ng ating pagkapilipino at ang mga paniniwala ng ating mga ninuno. Gaya na lamang ni Earvin, na matapos ang isang malagim na pangyayari, ay natagpuan ang sarili sa isang natatagong lupain. Isang lugar kung saan ang nakaraan ay nagbabalik, ang mga bagay na nakalimutan ay siyang iyong makikita at mga hiwagang inakala niyang nasa libro lamang. Maging ang kaniyang kapalaran ay nasubok dahil sa kawalan ng kasanayan sa ibang lupain. Dito ay nakilala at nakita niya ang iba't ibang katutubong Diyos, mga Diyos na dating kinikilala sa ating bansa. Mga Diyos na nagbigay sa kaniya ng tulong, gabay at basbas. Mga Diyos na siyang nangangalaga ng mga tao. Maging mga Diyos na nagtataglay ng katakot takot na kapangyarihan. Nagawa din niyang makipaglaro sa ibang nilalang at mga diwata. Maalala ang mga tradisyunal na larong pilipino. Ang payak na pamumuhay ng mga mamamayan. Maging ang makipagtalo at makipaglaban sa mga nakakatakot na nilalang at mga engkanto, gaya ng tikbalang at mga aswang. Kaya naman samahan natin si Earvin sa kaniyang paglalakbay na nagpapakita ng mga nalimot na kultura. Masdan kung paano niya magagawang pagharapin, pagsamahin at pagbuklodin ang ating nakaraan at kasalukuyan.