title: The Last Time I Saw Mother: A Novel
author:  Arlene J. Chai 
description: When an oblique letter summons Caridad from Australia to her mother's side in the steamy Philippines, she travels there fearing loss. And loss she finds, but one that finally throws light on the whispers that dogged her life in this land where Spanish, Chinese, and Filipino cultures slap against one another. "The past defines us as much as the present," says Caridad. "Because mine was missing, I never felt whole." Four women--Caridad, her mother Thelma, aunt Emma, and cousin Ligaya--piece together the puzzle of a life begun in wartime. Their vantage points differ, but their stories are silver-tongued and spellbinding even as Ligaya's bitterness stains the pages and Emma's long, mute acceptance of fate's cruelty rings false. Wrapped around Caridad's story is a far bigger one of the years when the Japanese occupied the Philippines and American liberation forces decimated the country.
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  Tempting Bella
  
  Diana Quincy
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is
  coincidental.
  
  Copyright © 2013 by Dora Mekouar. All rights reserved, including the right to
  reproduce, distribute, or transmit in any form or by any means. For
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  Entangled Publishing, LLC
  
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  Edited by Alethea Spiridon Hopson & Rima Jean
  
  Cover design by Liz Pelletier
  
  Ebook ISBN 978-1-62266-248-7
  
  Manufactured in the United States of America
  
  First Edition September 2013
  
  
  For my Mother
  
  Table of Contents
  
  Prologue
  
  Chapter One
  
  Chapter Two
  
  Chapter Three
  
  Chapter Four
  
  Chapter Five
  
  Chapter Six
  
  Chapter Seven
  
  Chapter Eight
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  Chapte