I’m so glad you’re here.
My name is Lenora, and I’m a Filipina author who writes stories for people who feel deeply — the ones who overthink, who overlove, who carry both wounds and wonder in equal measure. I started writing back in college, scribbling late at night as a form of escape. Over the years, writing has become more than a hobby — it’s become the way I understand love, grief, timing, healing, and the invisible threads that connect us.
I write stories that explore what it means to long for something — or someone — and to keep believing even after the world tells you not to.
My debut novel, I Waited in This Life Too, began as a personal project. I never expected to share it so widely, but your messages and connections have reminded me why we tell stories in the first place: to feel a little less alone.
Thank you for being part of this. Whether you’re just starting the story or have already reached the final page, know this: some part of me is always writing for you.
The Mirror Before Her
Elián’s Story – Book Two of the "I Waited in This Life Too"
I thought I knew what love felt like.
She looked like her.
Moved like her.
Smiled like her in a dream I couldn’t quite remember.
So I chased her—
Not the woman,
but the ache she left behind.
Then Mara arrived.
Not loud, not grand.
Just… real.
And everything I thought I understood unraveled.
Because she didn’t feel like a dream.
She felt like memory.
But I was too late.
Too wrapped in fear, in silence, in the ghosts of who I used to be.
Too broken to trust the kind of love that doesn’t ask you to earn it.
By the time I recognized her…
she was already learning to live without me.
This is the story of how I lost her.
How I almost found her again.
And how the universe gave me a mirror before it gave me Mara.
If I ever get another chance—
I won’t just choose her.
I’ll choose myself too.
Some souls find each other again and again—even if it breaks them every time.
Mara never believed in soulmates, much less past lives. But when she meets Elián—a quiet man with eyes full of ghosts—everything she thought she knew about love, fate, and time begins to unravel.
Drawn to him by a pull she can’t explain, Mara is forced to confront dreams that feel like memories, heartbreak that echoes from somewhere deeper than this lifetime, and a connection that defies logic. As their worlds entwine, she begins to wonder: is she losing her grip on reality… or remembering something she was never meant to forget?