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In a world where perception often eclipses reality, ‘Dissemblance’ invites you to unravel the tangled web of a family forever altered by the echoes of past events. Set more than a decade after the tumultuous events chronicled in ‘Semblance of Storms’ and ‘Re-Semblance,’ this poignant narrative unfolds through the eyes of Milly, a young girl at that time whose innocence was shattered by the tumult surrounding her.Now a voice that demands to be heard, Milly reflects on the events affecting her family, a complex tapestry interwoven with mental illness, the glittering allure of celebri...

The lies and actions have caught up with him. He’s banished from the beds of his lovers. They tell their own stories now.The ramifications of his actions continue, even while he remains caught up in the activities of the authorities. He faces his legal and personal punishments with self-guilt. He has a new home waiting for him on Emerald Isle. There are new babies and there is a continuing need to hide the parentage of one of them. He is trying to resolve the issues until tragedy strikes once more. Now, he’s fighting for his life and trying to recall his past. His lovers and...

All that is required, by his publishers is to write a fourth book, not like the flop that was his third. His successful first two books bought him fame, some fortune and disputes with his terminally ill father. He wants his son to help with his half-sister. If only her mom, wouldn’t give confusing messages on what she wants; possibly him. A family friend and lawyer will help, as he always has done but there are secrets in his past too.His new book will be a tale of boy meets girl in his usual elaborate and descriptive style. His agent, wants him to produce it soon but he has his own pressure...

In the shadows of betrayal and vengeance, the Russian bear awakens, targeting the architects of operations and their defecting fugitives in a deadly game of cat and mouse. The Russians, driven by a burning desire for revenge after their failures, set their sights on those they believe have wronged them inside and outside Russia. The UK's security services and the architects of the Enez operation find themselves in the crosshairs. The Russians dispatch teams to execute their deadly plans.Amidst the turmoil, Hugh and Michelle continue to hide, far away from the yacht and house that were once the...

Despite the declared end of the pandemic, there are still threats to the UK, particularly from Russia. Friends from across the Atlantic who like to meddle continue to track and follow the shadowy financing team supporting the UK’s security services. They assured the UK they would not, but disparate agencies in the USA have different agendas.Michelle and Hugh Turnbill are now married. They still manage MI5 and MI6's clandestine funds. They occasionally sail around the Greek Islands with the Harper sisters or stay at their new house in Mykonos. They desire a normal life but are aware that caut...

Captain Tom Larring barely escaped alive from a mission in Afghanistan. He now has another task. Effi Miani has been undercover in the Middle east but is needed for the same operation. Together they must find Bravo-One-One, who is the highest priority target for MI6. He is believed to be building a chemical weapon in Northwest Pakistan. A previous MI6 operation has already failed. A leak or a traitor inside MI6 may have destroyed that mission, so extra precautions must be taken otherwise this team will also fail.Tom and Effi need a faultless backstory before embarking on their mission. The ope...

An old MI6 undercover mission to prevent terrorists entering the UK via sex trafficking routes went wrong. The undercover agent is assigned to a new role.A man lost in the shadows manages the hidden finances of the security services but dreams of a better life sailing the Mediterranean. When he runs off he is hunted, but he may have been killed by an organised crime leader. The police are assigned to find him.Two sisters run away to Greece from the sexual abuse of their father. The characters intersect as the hunt commences. Then the security services need to find options to deal with the fall...

The Demise Trilogy is all three books of the series in a single large volumeThis is a complex thriller based on the lead up to and aftermath of the second Iraq war. A conspiracy to cover up the associated activities of parts of the intelligence services. Now available as a complete trilogy.The Demise SeriesAn Agent’s Demise: Part One of the Demise TrilogyIntelligence analysts and agents have gone missing, some may have been killed. The press and the police suspect there is a serial killer on the loose. John Slater was near the latest victim, he is evasive, appears to have no history, and he ...

The conclusion to the Demise trilogy.The conspiracy is over the mistakes and cover up are hidden and buried for good. Both sides of the Atlantic can concentrate on the threats from Islamic Terrorism. That is what they all hope.They want to enlist a hidden black asset in the chase, but there are risks to that approach. Meanwhile the FBI is still investigating what really happened. Is the conspiracy really over? Al Qaeda plan new atrocities and MI6 with Homeland Security will try to stop them. The newly wed Michael Johnson can help but his wife is still recovering from her injuries and she is su...

The Demise operation was shut down the killer allowed to disappear. But the conspirators have not all been caught and the efforts of MI6 and the CIA to cover up the dirty deeds of the security services only results in more deaths and destruction. Slater returns to tidy up, but how can he reconcile his new life with what he is asked to do.What happens to Jess and Michael? Will the newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Hooper really allow the suspected killer to go free?Can the authorities continue to cover up the plot to alter the Iraqi Dossiers on both sides of the Atlantic?Can the killer s...

Intelligence analysts and agents have gone missing, some may have been killed. The press and the police suspect there is a serial killer on the loose. John Slater was near the latest victim, he is evasive, appears to have no history, and he might be the killer. The second Iraq war and the intelligence network may link the victims and so The Metropolitan Police’s Special Branch investigates, with the help or hindrance of the Intelligence Agencies. The mistakes made in creating the dossiers used to support going to war are supposed to stay buried on both sides of the Atlantic, but still a kill...

God is all‑powerful, able to lift anything, and all‑knowing, able to create what He cannot lift. The answer to this ancient paradox is found here and offers some of the most beautiful logic you may have ever read. The One who created rivers, oceans, forests, mountains, stars, galaxies and universes does not depend on our recognition and is not offended by our non-belief. We are God's first Creation, and in forgetting this, we forgot that God is pure Love. A Love unchanging, patient, compassionate, and incapable of loss. A Love so complete it cannot condemn, cannot create Hell, and cannot r...

There is only one speck of land in the entire world where activities literally take place in the shadow of tomorrow. It is a remote island in the Arctic Circle, beyond the northwestern tip of the Aleutian Island chain, and located just east of the international date line. Beyond the west shore of the Bering Strait, on the other side of the date line, stands the mountains of the Kamchatka Peninsula. When the sun sets on a rare clear day, that mountain range, towering in the domain of tomorrow, casts a shadow over the small and remote island of today.With less than thirty working days before ret...

 Soaring metaphors that take mundane events to new levels. Lyrical and philosophical poetry with profound meaning, enhancing the reader’s fantasies and feelings.
 

Whereas Mahabharata's Bhagvad-Gita is taken as a philosophical guide, Ramayana's Sundara Kãnda is sought for spiritual solace; many believe that reading it or hearing it recited would remove all hurdles and usher in good tidings! Miracles apart, it's in the nature of this great epic to inculcate fortitude and generate hope in man for it’s a depiction of how Hanuman goes about his errand against all odds.  Besides, it portrays how Seetha, on the verge of self-immolation, overcomes despair to see life in a new light? With rhythm of its verse and the flow of the narrative this sloka-...

Bhagavad-Gita is the most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue’ – William von Humboldt.  In this the beauty of the Sanskrit slokas is reflected in the rhythmic flow of the English verse of poetic proportions even as the attendant philosophy of the Gita is captured in contemporary idiom for easy comprehension.         Though it is a matter of consensus that Bhagvad-Gita in the present length of seven hundred slokas has many an interpolation to it, but no meaningful attempt has ever been made to del...

Author Bruce Alan Humphrey creates a fascinating world where medieval mores and cutting-edge technology converge. Winds of Time tells the gripping tale of Tarl Cray, who is on a mission to reunite his homeland. The nation has been divided into intensely territorial sovereignties with intermittent violence and chaos. Barter trade for survival is the only civil exchange between factions. Now, an outside force is threatening to take over the once-great but now battle-weary country. Can Tarl, imbued with the ability to metamorphose into anyone, convince the warlords to reunite and face the impendi...

The Manusmriti, the social doctrine of yore, and the Bhagvad-Gita, the spiritual tome in vogue that lay down the discriminatory dharma (duties) of the four social classes (castes) have been the bugbears of the Hindu backward classes. However, to their chagrin, of late, as the latter is being mindlessly promoted even though the former was constitutionally debunked, they began advocating that it too should be dumped in a dustbin.Ironically, the improbability of their progenitor Krishna, the architect of the Gita, relegating his own ilk to the social margins failed to dawn upon these that Gita su...

The Pilot is a literary fiction. It’s a story about love, hopes, dreams and even illusions. It’s a prose with poetic inspiration, metaphors and allegorical expressions. It’s a fantasy romance as one of its characters is a ghost. However, it is also a spiritual novel that speaks about angels and unexplained communications between Earth and Heaven. There is something mysterious and mystic. The story is a mix of realistic life events and relationships and something mystical as well. The main character of the story is a young lady, Nare, who faces so many troubles and disappointments. She ha...

The sublimity of Muhammad's preaching in Mecca and the severity of his sermons in Medina make Islam a Janus-faced faith that forever bedevils the mind of the Musalmans. This thought-provoking work, besides dissecting the anatomy of Islam, steeped in the Quran, seeks to depict the psyche of the Musalmans, shaped by the proclivities of their prophet, vicissitudes of his life and the attitudes of his detractors, which the mechanism of their umma perpetuates. More to the point, aided by “I’m Ok – You’re Ok”, the path-breaking work of Thomas A. Harris and Roland E Miller’s “...

The Canvas Of My Soul is a colorful dreamscape of insights and emotions. My words linger with the reader. The Canvas Of My Soul is a poetic reporter of the “Human Condition” as I explore the rhythms and patterns of human heart and soul. The Canvas Of My Soul includes lyrical, romantic and philosophical poems. The Hues Of My Palette which is the subtitle of The Canvas Of My Soul is an artistic landscape in lyrical words and deep thoughts.

This is a compendium of the author’s Indian stage and radio plays:"Slighted Souls" is a poignant love story set in rural Telangana, beset with feudal exploitation of the downtrodden dalits. Besides forcing the dalits to toil in the fields as bonded labor without impunity, the land owning doras had no qualms in reducing the womenfolk of this ilk as sex slaves in the gadis, which leads to an armed resistance engulfing a young couple.Men at work on Women at work" is a tragic-comic episode depicting the fallout of sexual harassment at the workplace in the ...

This is a collection of the author’s short stories that deals with women's dilemmas in the Indian social milieu accompanied with unique denouements. While 'Ilaa's Ire' contrasts woman's lot of the day with her eminence in the Vedic Age, '201' Qualms" depicts her predicament, torn between personal loyalty and citizen's responsibility. As "?" addresses woman's marital stress in an alien land, 'Cupid's Clue' is about her acting on rebound in her native place. Even as 'Autumn Love' lets woman discover the marital void in her life, 'A Touchy Affair' makes her amenable to her man's ...

Lured by the pitch - All marriages are made in heaven but some are delayed on earth: We endeavor to hasten them all - Priya goes to Renuka Marriage Bureau.

Scanning the prospects, when she spotted Venu, whom she slighted long ago, she rushes to him to bring about a dramatic encounter.

What brought about Priya’s change of heart to seek her former suitor and how Venu responds to his old flame’s fresh overtures lend suspense to their romance in this eclectic novella.  

The year is 1946, and the aftermath of war still haunts humanity.In the heart of Paris, Mueller finds Frances; she is pregnant. He finally confesses his love for her, and they prepare for their future together.Germany is now an occupied and devastated country. Many cities have been destroyed by Allied bombing. There is a shortage of food, and the harvest of 1946 doesn’t look promising. The once great nation must now face the daunting task of rebuilding and regaining acceptance on the world stage. But before that can happen, those responsible for the atrocities of the Nazi regime must stand t...

It is Spring 1944, and WW2 still rages.Imprisoned first in Auschwitz, and then Dachau, violin virtuoso Frances Meyer, has now suffered the ultimate abuse of rape, by onetime friend Otto Von Liechtenstein. Full of remorse, Otto swears to get her released from Dachau.When Frances is told of her imminent release, she swears she will keep the promises she made to her friends in Auschwitz and Dachau, and plans the revenge she will take on Otto. But it is Mueller who is waiting for her at the Guardhouse. Frances finds it impossible to leave the past behind, and her mind is full of the horror and atr...

Even as Detective Dhruva was enamored of Kavya, whom he rescues from her kidnapper, Radha, an alleged murderess on the run, gatecrashes into his life.But when Kavya too joins him after her man was poisoned there ensues the tussle of a love triangle, which gets unraveled in a poignant end, but not before a series of murders.So, then who could have poisoned Ranjit the realtor, Shakeel the Inspector, Pravar the criminal and Natya his accomplice?Well the needle of suspicion tilted towards Pravar that was till he perished with his mate, but then who was the one? Could it be Radha under the sca...

War Torn: A Riveting Tale of Love, Sacrifice, and Survival in the Heart of WWIIAmid the horrors of war, can love cross enemy lines and survive the battle within?October 1942. Frances Meyer, a gifted violinist, faces an unthinkable choice: stay in Nazi-occupied France under the menacing gaze of an SS officer obsessed with her or risk everything for freedom. With her ailing Jewish husband, she boards a fragile boat to escape, but fate has other plans. Shipwrecked in the unforgiving Atlantic, her fight for survival lands her in the last place she expected—a German U-boat. Commanded by the enigm...

Fragments of Time: A Haunting Time-Slip Love Story.A young soldier swears it’s 1914. She knows it’s 1964. Both can’t be right—can they?Jen’s world is unravelling. Two years after the devastating loss of her parents and her dreams of becoming a doctor, she’s stuck in an abusive marriage with no way out. Her life feels hopeless.Everything changes when she meets Tommy, a young soldier, at the old regimental church in Hamptonbury, who insists the year is 1914.Drawn to his warmth and integrity, Jen discovers a rare love with Tommy and finds hope and healing in a way she never imagined.S...

It's perilous penning this blurb.It's fine when man is modest about his work.It even affords him the aura of an invisible crown!But what about his work?Were it an art or craft, it is there for all to see.What of a literary work of an unheralded author?Well, lauding the same might raise one's eyebrows.Failing to praise wouldn't make a 'jewel-less crown' either!Why not see, if this is the great Indian novel. This is the story of the rise and fall of an ambitious man, the decline, and the decay of his conniving wife, the trials, and tribulations of their wayward son as well as the grit and g...

In a stream of consciousness mode, this is the self-account of the life and times of a man, who liquidates his immense wealth only to consign it to the flames.

The agony and ecstasy of his life as he makes it big in our materialistic world and the way he loses his soul in the bargain, only to regain it when tragedy strikes him makes one ponder over the meaning of success in life.

What with stories within stories, this philosophical ‘novel of a memoir’, in a stream of consciousness, is a compelling read that is conducive to contemplate about the nature and scope of human relationships.

 

If passing through youth was like crossing the mirage of life for Chandra and Nithya, it proved to be chasing the mirage of love for Sathya and Prema though for plain Vasavi, Chandra's pitiable sibling, it was the end of the road. As life brings Chandra, who suffers from an inferiority complex for his perceived ugliness, and Nithya, who was bogged down being jilted by Vasu, together, they script their fate of fulfillment. But as poetic justice would have it, Sathya, who caused Prema's heartburn, himself was led down the garden path by Kala, doing a Sathya on Sathya. Just not tha...

LUVVIE: a humorous term for an actor, especially one regarded as effusive or affected. (Oxford English Dictionary) Ben Braddock, a struggling actor and playwright, is celebrating his fortieth birthday. His friends hire a psychic off the internet for the party who makes two predictions. First, that Ben will win the lottery and second, that he will probably die before his next birthday. Ten minutes later, Ben wins a million on the lottery. Fearing he has less than a year to live, Ben looks for love among the luvvies and learns how to write a novel along the way, opening with the words ...

The attractions Roopa experienced and the fantasies she entertained as a teen shaped a male imagery that ensconced her subconscious. Insensibly, confident carriage came to be associated with the image of maleness in her mind-set. Her acute consciousness of masculinity only increased her vulnerability to it, making her womanliness crave for the maleness for its gratification. However, as her father was constrained to help her in becoming a doctor, she opts to marry, hoping that Sathyam might serve her cause though the persona she envisioned as masculine, she found lacking in him. But as he...

Iss, an eight year old boy, has some lessons for us all. Things he has learned in a short time through experiences.

These lessons include finding your purpose, the Golden Rule, being honest, smiling, having hope and faith, forgiveness leads to happiness, tell people you love them, keeping a positive outlook, people you love are always in your heart, and most importantly, salvation. 

Let's find out what Iss has learned, and maybe we can learn too and become better people. The world needs better people, don't you agree?

"The land remembers who it feeds and who it buries."Alabama, 1927.In the sweltering heat of Tallapoosa County, survival is a complicated mathematics of knowing when to speak and when to stay silent. For Mr. Henry and Lee Lowe, life in the Jim Crow South is defined by the weights they choose to carry - and the secrets they must keep to protect those they love.Spanning decades of family legacy amongst the red clay of the American South, The Weight of the Light is a story of grace found in unexpected places: within illegal electricity, a shared silver coin, and the quiet courage to hold a barn do...

When the man who destroyed you comes back needing you to save him what do you do?And the worst part is — you still feel everything.You loved him completely. You gave him three years, your loyalty, your whole heart.Then he handed you divorce papers without a single explanation. And walked away like none of it mattered.Now he needs you back. Not because he loves you.Because without you, his empire crumbles.Olivia Cole built herself back up from nothing after her CEO husband discarded her for someone younger, shinier, and less inconveniently in love with him. She has rules now.Sixty days. One c...

Special Agent May Cortez survived the Graveyard of the Pacific. Now, she just has to survive her own agency.After a bloody, high-stakes maritime raid is politically sabotaged, FBI tactical agent and former Coast Guard Surfman May Cortez is exiled to a basement desk in Colorado. But when she stumbles across a bureaucratic ghost file—billing records for a 141-year-old inmate hidden in the depths of ADX Florence Supermax—she accidentally kicks a century-old hornet's nest.Framed for treason by her own handler and hunted by a shadow network embedded deep within the government, May is forced int...

She rides west as a man. She returns as a force of justice.When Samantha Holloway’s husband vanishes chasing gold in California, she refuses to accept his disappearance.Determined to find him, she cuts her hair, binds her chest, and disguises herself as a man to join a dangerous wagon train west.Now, Sam Holt is armed with a Hawken rifle and an iron will to find the truth.Her search leads her to Devil’s Basin and the lawless town of Calico Ridge, where her husband’s trail grows cold and rumors of betrayal swirl. She crosses paths with Jack Carver, a Union veteran turned deputy marshal, a...

The skies of Venus are about to burnWhen pirate warlord Simon Boucher launches a devastating surprise attack on the floating city of Aether, retaliation is inevitable. Missiles tear through the clouds, autonomous drones hunt their targets, and millions of civilians are caught in the crossfire of a war that could engulf the planet.Magdalena Fairchild has already lost everything once. Formerly a rising star in Venusian racing, now a widow turned bounty hunter, she is working with Providence—the most feared mercenary force in the Venusian colonies. After Aether falls under attack, Magdalena joi...