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When Oceans Rise

by Robin Alvarez

A Filipino folklore tale across two timelines

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A Filipino folklore tale across two timelines

Seventeen-year-old Malaya’s family curse is tied to first love, but her immediate danger is a relationship that has left her isolated and unable to recognize its abuse. A bargain with a sea witch offers a life in which she and her boyfriend never met, then displaces her with an alternate-timeline version of herself. The switch connects Malaya’s struggle to regain her place with the sea witch’s release of creatures from Filipino mythology into both worlds. The story brings together abusive relationship dynamics, family fate, folklore, and parallel timelines in a fantasy conflict whose stakes reach beyond Malaya’s own life.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in fantasy involving Filipino mythology.
  • Readers seeking fiction about abusive relationships, isolation, and reclaiming a life.
  • Readers who enjoy stories involving family curses and alternate timelines.

Themes

Filipino mythology and folkloreAbusive relationships and isolationFamily curses and first loveAlternate timelines and identity

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Book overview

Submerged in a toxic relationship and disconnected from everyone, she turns to the sea to decide her fate. Its decision? Toss her to the sea witch.

 

Seventeen-year-old Malaya is cursed. In her family, every girl's first love ends in death after falling for someone evil. Good thing Malaya's dream guy isn't monstrous.

 

Except the curse is real and preventing Malaya from noticing how much he has gaslit and isolated her until she can't be saved. With no other options, the sea witch is the only one to help her.

 

Bartering her voice for a new life where she and her abusive boyfriend never met, Malaya accidentally swaps places with an alternate timeline version of herself who didn't make her mistakes. As she tries to undo the switch, the sea witch uses Malaya's voice to unleash Filipino mythological creatures into the worlds.

 

Can a champion, an alternate timeline sister, and Malaya fight these beasts and stop the sea witch before she destroys both timelines?

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