The First Impulse: 2nd Edition by Laurel Fantauzzo – Trade Paperback

A nonfiction love story and mystery.Alexis Tioseco and Nika Bohinc were two young film journalists deeply in love. Alexis was the only child of his Filipino-Canadian family who chose to stay in the Philippines. He wrote an open letter to Nika, asking her to join him in his country. And so, she did— for love—leaving her homeland, Slovenia, behind.On September 1, 2009, four intruders murdered the couple in their Quezon City home. Alexis was 28, and Nika was 29. The tragedy of their deaths rippled across the Philippines and the world, leaving devastation and few answers in its wake.A year later, a young Filipina-American author felt haunted by the unsolved case. So, she began an investigation of her own.