Some storms you run from. Some you finally learn to dance in.
Allan Reyes quit his soul-crushing corporate job with a three-paragraph resignation email and zero backup plan. Now he’s back in the small town of San Andres, Catanduanes, painting a mural at the old movie house and dodging a whole barangay’s worth of unsolicited opinions about his love life. Chief among the opinionated: the BEBES, three aunties running a barangay-wide gossip network, and their enthusiastic co-conspirator Oryo, the family dog named after a folklore peacemaking goddess who has never met two idiots-in-love he didn’t want to fix.
Then he runs into Robby, literally, in his mother’s bathroom: the municipality’s disaster response officer, his brother’s best friend, and the one person Allan never quite got over. Ten years ago, something happened between Allan and Robby in a library that neither boy was ready to name. Now they’re both back home, both older, and both apparently still standing a little too close whenever a storm rolls in, weather-related or otherwise. Robby has spent a decade training whole towns for worst-case scenarios. He never planned for the best case: Allan, unemployed, chaotic, and impossible to stop loving, walking straight back into his life.
SIGNAL NO. US is a slow burn, hometown M/M romance about the people worth staying for, and the found family who’ll embarrass themselves rooting for you to stay together.
Perfect for readers who love
- Small-town homecoming romance
- Brother’s best friend, forbidden-adjacent tension
- “He’s loved you since forever” plus second-chance longing
- Found family, meddling pets, and scene-stealing side characters
- Slow burn with a satisfying payoff (Heat Level 3 — open door)
