S.O.P (Standard Operating Procedure) | Ace Dionaldo | Novella

Description

What happens when doing the right thing no longer feels like an option?

Abby, Paolo, and Kinns have been best friends since childhood. But adulthood has not been kind to them.

Abby is struggling to provide for his family while carrying the weight of failed dreams. Paolo has put his music on hold to save his mother’s life. And Kinns, born into one of Cebu’s most powerful political families, has spent years trying to distance himself from the world that made his family rich and influential.

Then Kinns brings them together with a plan.

They aren’t robbing a bank.

They’re taking money from a system built on corruption—a system where stolen public funds, bribery, and political influence have become so ordinary that they are simply called S.O.P.—Standard Operating Procedure.

What begins as a desperate attempt to secure a better future quickly spirals into something much bigger. As the money disappears, powerful people begin to fight back. Secrets buried for years begin to surface. And the three friends are forced to confront the question they tried so hard to avoid:

If the system itself is corrupt, what happens when ordinary people decide to fight it on its own terms?

S.O.P. is a fast-paced story about friendship, family, desperation, corruption, and the price of taking justice into your own hands.

Because sometimes, the hardest question isn’t whether you can break the rules.

It’s whether you can live with what happens after you do.