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The Girl Behind the Neon
Paperback
Publisher: Madelyn Wray
Published: Jul 5 2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the neon-lit streets of Malate, Manila, Lera Santos is surrounded by bars, clubs, music, tourists, and men who think every woman under the lights has a price.
But Lera is not for sale.
At twenty years old, she should be focused on school, dreams, and building a better future. Instead, she is trapped inside a bar after her father's debt puts her in the hands of a dangerous owner. She works in the kitchen, carries drinks when the bar is short-staffed, and keeps her head down while strangers mistake her silence for weakness.
Then one crowded Friday night, she serves a table of wealthy American businessmen and notices one man different from the rest.
Ethan Vale is quiet, powerful, and impossible to ignore. In his blue suit and cold control, he looks like a man who owns every room he enters. But when he finds Lera exhausted in the hallway and asks if she is okay, something changes between them.
He sees the girl behind the neon.
She sees the man who may either save her heart-or break what little trust she has left.
As Lera fights to escape a debt she never made, secrets begin to surface, danger closes in, and the line between protection and desire becomes harder to resist. But Lera must learn one truth before she can love anyone fully:
She is not her father's mistake.
She is not the bar's property.
She is not the name strangers whisper.
She is Lera Santos.
And she belongs to herself.
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