“Home at last,” Erica murmured, the word soured on her tongue.

She had just returned home, after her grandchild's naming ceremony at the Everetts, with more questions than answers.

It's the beginning of Tag-init in the Philippines. The sun had only begun to stretch when a car pulled up to the towering iron gates of the Williams' ancestral home. Hidden deep within the plush greens of the hidden hills of San Juan, it looked like something torn from a forgotten century… Onate, imposing, ...