Kristine Emerald Fortalejo

Kristine Emerald Fortalejo is the main heroine in Kristine Series's first book, The Devil's Kiss. She goes by her second name Emerald after her paternal grandmother, Esmeralda. Marco de Silva is her husband whom she had two children with, the twins Romano and Jade.

Emerald is the eldest and only biological daughter of Romano Fortalejo and Anna Fortalejo. Upon her father's death, she was told of her parent's love story and the subsequent estrangement to the rest of the Fortalejo family thus beginning her quest to clean her father's name and to meet the patriarch of the Fortalejo clan, Romano's father, Don Leon Fortalejo.

Emerald is a Journalism graduate. She works as a romance novelist. Her grandfather had admonished her on the fact that she refuses to work at the family company.

Don Leon noted how much Emerald looks like her grandmother whom she was named after. She stands at 5'4", with light brown hair and fair complexion favouring the Spanish features of the Fortalejo. Emerald was one of the few people who stood up against Don Leon, several times even, a fact that greatly impressed Marco. But it can be said that Don Leon has a soft spot for his two granddaughters that allowed for both to defy their grandfather with fewer consequences.

Emerald gave birth a few hours before Jewel died and fell ill soon after learning of the tragedy. Emerald was the one to decided to give to Zandro the shares that Jewel inherited from Leon. She was the only Fortalejo to not have worked in the family business opting to continue writing and raising her children. Her husband, Marco, took on the responsibility instead knowing that Emerald was torn from disliking running a company and fulfilling family obligations.

When their children took over the helm in running Emerald's share in Kristine Group of Companies, she and Marco moved back to Paso de Blas to live in the de Silva's ancestral home permanently. She has grandchildren from both her children.