Length2h 55m
About this audiobook
It is festival week in Santa Fe, Leyte: lanterns over the plaza, a night market open until the small hours, and on Saturday the old mayor must renew, in public and in his own hand, the fifty-year-old promise that protects the land outside town. But on the Saturday night before, he walks home past the old acacia tree and never arrives.
In the morning there is a footprint the size of a door, a smell of cigar smoke, and a whole town certain that the kapre in the acacia took him. A gloomy fortune-teller in the plaza says he predicted it. The police agree. And on Friday, they mean to cut the tree down.
The Bantay Brothers have six days to find out who really took the mayor, and why, before the promise runs out.
Told by Lola Caring, who for once was there herself, this is the second of Lola Caring's Stories: a mystery of giants, prophecies, a market in the dark and a city nobody can see.
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature, Mystery and Thriller
Length2 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 7, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Lola-Caring's Stories. Book Two. Bantay Brothers: The Night Market and the Invisible City.
2Chapter One. I Was There This Time.
3Chapter Two. Festival Week.
4Chapter Three. Saturday Night.
5Chapter Four. The Footprint.
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6Chapter Five. Marisol.
7Chapter Six. Down the Lift.
8Chapter Seven. Stop Looking.
9Chapter Eight. The Giant in the Acacia.
10Chapter Nine. The Driver.
11Chapter Ten. The Seer of the Plaza.
12Chapter Eleven. The Button.
13Chapter Twelve. The Lights That Died.
14Chapter Thirteen. The Coast Road.
15Chapter Fourteen. Now Is the Right Time.
16Chapter Fifteen. Aling Pacing's Ice Box.
17Chapter Sixteen. A Man Who Does Not Sweat.
18Chapter Seventeen. The Seal.
19Chapter Eighteen. A Night in the Acacia.
20Chapter Nineteen. The Sea Wall.
21Chapter Twenty. The Black Hand of Quiapo.
22Chapter Twenty-One. The Chip.
23Chapter Twenty-Two. The Gap in the Street.
24Chapter Twenty-Three. The Girl Who Followed the Lights.
25Chapter Twenty-Four. Every Saw in Santa Fe.
26Chapter Twenty-Five. Across San Juanico.
27Chapter Twenty-Six. The Resort.
28Chapter Twenty-Seven. The City of Lights.
29Chapter Twenty-Eight. The Engkanto Court.
30Chapter Twenty-Nine. A Trade Is a Trade.
31Chapter Thirty. The Race.
32Chapter Thirty-One. The Empty Chair.
33Chapter Thirty-Two. Afterwards.
34Lola-Caring's Stories. That was Book Two. The Bantay Brothers will be back in Book Three.
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