I Am Georgia

Georgia Elizabeth Smith, better known as Gia, was born into a powerful and dangerous family with long standing ties to an underworld ruled by money, blood, and secrets. Behind her soft and elegant face is a woman who is not easily frightened, not easily controlled, and even less willing to let her life be turned into a mere arrangement. When they tried to force her into a world she wanted no part of, she left Spain and hid in the Philippines under the name Gia Santos. But instead of simply running away, she chose to bring life back to a barrio that had long been neglected through a school, food, a clinic, medicine, and the kind of hope that had been withheld for far too long from people who had no one else to depend on. Sebastian “Baste” Montenegro is the governor’s son, a man born into a family that has always known how to seize power and keep it in their name. Handsome, quiet, and carrying the presence of old money and influence, Baste is the kind of man who does not speak often, yet every glance from him carries weight. He grew up in a world that should have taught him how to stay beside his father, a man consumed by the need for control. But the deeper the conflict around the barrio and the school Gia is trying to rebuild becomes, the more he sees the woman who refuses to be shaken even when the entire system stands against her. And with every clash between them, the line grows thinner between the side he is supposed to choose and the woman he was never meant to love. How will two people find each other when one comes from a family hungry for power, while the other becomes the justice of people whose stomachs have long been left empty by neglect? How far can Sebastian fight for a feeling he knows he should never have for the woman he once saw as an enemy? And how much can the people around them destroy Gia before she finally stops hiding and speaks the name she has kept buried for so long? Because when the moment comes that she has no choice left, she will no longer be just Gia Santos. She is Georgia Elizabeth Smith SY, and she will never forgive the people who tried to bury her alive.