Carla de Guzman
contemporary romance author from the Philippines, can be found in cafés or wherever a Travelers Notebook is sold.
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Lia Mertola needs a break. Between losing her job and ending a friendship, she’s feeling a little lifeless. Her brother Teddy’s offer to be his saling kit on a work trip to Seoul is the perfect escape.
But what Teddy failed to mention was that he was working with CoBOLT—the band she used to love, led by the idol she used to live for.
Second generation KPop idol Cal Ahn can feel his grasp on the industry slipping away. With the loss of a bandmate and a contract renewal in danger, he’s not in the right headspace to work on a new mini album, not even with the producer he handpicked to fly in from Manila.
But there’s something about the way Teddy’s sister Lia looks at him, like she knows something he doesn’t. Like she knows the words to all the songs he can’t seem to write.
The more time Cal and Lia spend together, the more they find that there’s room to grow together—unless their lives mean they need to stay apart.
Manila Takes Manhattan
read by Gabriela Pangilinan and Jef Flores
Blooming Love
Philippine Print Edition
On AI
I only work with human editors, artists, fellow authors and narrators. I do not consent to having my work fed to AI and other large language models.
This is romance!
Where romance, by definition, are stories that contain happy endings, and happy-for-now endings, with characters that have agency, give their consent and are given justice.
Filipino characters, set anywhere
I choose to write contemporary romance (mostly) with Filipino characters. I do not provide an index in any of my books, and I never will!