The Price of Dreams

David Reyes grew up in a two-bedroom house in Tondo, where a folding cot was his bed and his Aunt Cora's two-hundred-peso insurance payment was her quiet promise for the day she was gone. When a delivery truck takes her, the policy pays out, and David vows to make her last gift count.
Years later he is the finest heart surgeon in the country, and the President's daughter is on his operating table. Saving Leonore's life is the easy part. Loving her means facing an oil-rich Sheikh who wants her for himself, and a country that can't afford to say no.
Then the Sheikh's own daughter needs David's hands.
A story about hunger, sacrifice, and what makes a life rich.
If you'd like something shorter for a cover or social post, here's a one-line version: A poor boy from Tondo becomes the country's best heart surgeon, and learns what a heart is worth.