A Waltz into Ruin

Antonio Ortez haunts Cleyo Frontera in gory visions where he oversees their destiny of mutual ruination.

The star-crossed lovers are then face to face after Cleyo is also hand-picked by to learn under Schaffer University’s tenured professor of Philippine mythology. Despite the insatiable, cosmic draw that links her to Antonio’s world, Cleyo cannot be with Antonio because she has already promised to uphold her parents’s expectations in the place of her sister who was murdered last year. Besides, Antonio is currently with Octavia, and Cleyo, in turn, has agreed to be with Octavia’s younger brother, Caesar. If Antonio dares to be unfaithful to Octavia again, Caesar is not afraid of using violence as means to correct all Antonio has already wrought at Octavia’s expense.

But the fate Cleyo and Antonio are destined for involves powers infinitely grander at play than they could ever begin to imagine. Because the scorned wife of a once whole Bisayan pantheon seeks atonement for sins committed eternities ago, and she will not rest until Cleyo and Antonio pay their eventual price.

Trigger Warnings

• Murder, Domestic Violence
• Intent to Commit Sexual Assault
• Physical and Emotional Abuse, Victim Blaming
• Suicide (Implied Overdose Off-Screen)
• Discussions and Mentions of Alcoholism and Rehab