ADULT | HORROR | URBAN FANTASY | MYTHOLOGY | MANANANGGAL In a city where AI governs every aspect of life, one girl’s search for her missing sister leads her into a terrifying collision of myth and machine. When she finds her, she is no longer the sister she remembers—broken in spirit, consumed by something neither fully human nor fully artificial. Desperate to bring her home, she must face the dark alliance between cutting-edge technology and ancient horror. Dark, haunting, and fiercely original, The Tie That Binds fuses Philippine folklore with dystopian futurism in a YA science fantasy about sibling bonds, survival, and the fight to hold on to what makes us human.