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Summit Books

Tough Love

Tough Love
by Melissa Salva

Publication Date: March 2004
Price: P150.00
Available at your favorite magazine stands





...a 23-year-old web designer, karateka, and self-styled manang who likes to play it safe.

With clothes...
If not the comfortable training suits, only buttoned-up tops that don't show too much skin, skirts that fall below the knees, and pants safe enough to run in will do.

With web design...
Can you say, "Predictable?"

With karate...
She's managed, to her karate teacher's surprise, to rise to the rank of brown belt without having joined a single tournament. Her biggest fear? A bloody or broken nose.

And when it comes to love and relationships...
She'll share afternoon lattés and a kiss with a perfect stranger in a foreign country (using a fake name, of course). She can even imagine getting it on with her training buddy and devoted best guy friend (well, sometimes).
But she'll never, ever, risk getting her heart seriously broken.

All that is about to change.

"An inspiring must-read!"
Cosmopolitan Philippines