In RANSOMED BY LOVE: A HAPPY CHANGEMAKER’S UNFINISHED JOURNEY, La Viña tells the story of his past - from childhood to grappling with prostate cancer and mental health issues. Spurred by his confrontation with death, this book is his heritage gift to its intended youth readers. He shares his insights on a whole gamut of issues: the death of Ferdinand Marcos’s dictatorship in the wake of the EDSA people power revolution, negotiations on green house gas emmissions in the many COP he has led as member of the Philippine delegation, environmental issues he confronted as an official of the government agency on the environment, mentoring thousands of students on law and other life choices, as well as on Taylor Swift’s poetry in her songs.