
To add to her feelings of sticky unease, Lila’s little town of Shady Palms has resurrected the Miss Teen Shady Palms Beauty Pageant, which she won many years ago–a fact that serves as a wedge between Lila and her cousin slash rival, Bernadette. No, things are heating up quite literally, since summer, her least favorite season has just started.

Or her professional life, since she can’t bring herself to open her new cafe after the unpleasantness that occurred a few months ago at her aunt’s Filipino restaurant, Tita Rosie’s Kitchen. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal.
