The Secret Box

About the Book

Elizabeth Agustin, a pretty and smart Filipina, has a privileged life as the favourite daughter of a highly respected politician. However, her father is inconsiderate of her desires to pursue art and instead wants her to become a lawyer and eventually succeed him as mayor of their city. She rebels against him and runs away from home, nearly destroying her life. She is finally awakened to her senses, and burying the events of her rebellion in the past, she goes to the US to study and work. She comes back to live in the Philippines when her father dies. Then through her work, she meets Rolando Mendoza, a successful and brilliant CEO. Rolando falls in love with her, but he cannot legally marry her. Though he has been separated from his wife for years, she refuses to grant him a divorce. Elizabeth’s conservative upbringing makes her reject Rolando’s advances, but she can’t deny her growing love for him. In addition, she’s keeping a secret from Rolando that could change everything.

About the Author

Elizabeth Aguilar was born in a small town by the lake in the Philippines. Gathering clams in the very clear water of the lake at sunrise made her develop a love for art and writing that she composed poems, write short stories, and paint in watercolor when she was in grade school. She was very good in figures that she was made to pursue a career in accounting and business by her father and have no choice in a strictly paternal tradition of a society like hers. She spent all her life in the corporate world, but the love for writing never left her that when she was convinced by her friends to attend a writing workshop in early 2000, she gladly did and there she met her mentor, a writer of books published in the Philippines who encouraged her to write a novel and she did. Now here’s her first book, “The Secret Box.”