Sugar Magic

Noreen arrives in Bacolod with her daughter, determined to make the best of a fresh start...and to right an old wrong by recovering the figurine of a mythical sigbin, whose loss triggered generations of bad luck in her family. The only problem is Art: curator of a possibly haunted museum, current owner of the sigbin charm and possessor of a smile so bright it dazzles. It's not enough that he's so distracting--he also ignites something in Noreen she swore never to entertain again: Hope.
Originally serialized in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sugar Magic is a short story of six chapters. Content warnings for descriptions of cheating and elopement, mild ghostly encounters and stealing. This story is heat level zero in the #Romanceclass heat scale.