Women of War

FILIPINA

A Teacher’s War in the Philippines

By Lauryn Leone

This is the story of one woman’s refusal to surrender her students, her village, and her soul to the Japanese occupation.

FILIPINA

The Hair Dressing Spy

By Lauryn Leone

Manila, 1942. Naomi Flores is twenty years old, an orphan, and a hairdresser—until American prisoners begin starving behind Japanese barbed wire.

She risks everything to build a secret supply network, smuggling medicine, money, food, and messages into POW camps beneath the eyes of the Japanese.

Then one hidden package is discovered. The Japanese begin closing in. Naomi has every reason to stop. But she refuses to save herself. Instead, she finds another way to fight.

FILIPINA

The Untouchable

By Lauryn Leone

Manila, 1942. The Japanese occupation is savage and brutal. Resistance fighters are hunted, tortured, and executed. The underground is being crushed.

Then Josefina Guerrero makes a decision no one expects, breathing new life into the resistance. Using one of the most unconventional approaches of World War II, she becomes an unlikely weapon—one the Japanese cannot understand, predict, or stop.