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Pradyumna Son Of Krishna
The hero must rise from the ashes if he has to. But rise he must. As the world trembles on the threshold of Kali Yuga-4,32,000 years of unprecedented evil-the Kuru queen Gandhari curses Lord Krishna. Mankind will perish. Your name will be forgotten and so will your Gita! she rages. And, inexplicably, Krishna submits to her decree. Who, then, will save the world from the primordial Kali demon? Can Vama rise to the challenge in time? He learns that he is Vir Pradyumna, the son of Lord Krishna, who was kidnapped by the asuras. Destiny chases him from an asura kingdom to Dwaraka and Kurukshetra, forcing him to battle monsters, angry gods, blazing weapons and his own weaknesses. Pradyumna is a gripping saga of the rise of the mighty, swashbuckling hero whom all of humanity awaits.
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Chief Minister's Mistress
She is beautiful, she is smart, she is kind, She is a bloody rare find. But she is dead now . . . And those doe-like wonderful dark brown eyes no more offer warmth or love. The ruby red of those lips is now a cold blue. And the curve of that body is now frozen in rigor mortis. What happened? Who killed her—the chief minister’s secret mistress?
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The Dowry Bride
She is 21, married, childless . . . and she is about to be burned. As the dowry culture in India, in spite of the Dowry Law, remains an ugly reality, will Megha Ramnath contribute to changing it, or will she silently succumb to its dark existence? As Megha wakes up in the dead of night to the squeaking of the woodshed door, she steps out to see the cause behind it. What she witnesses is something so dangerous, so sinister that she is soon racing through the deserted streets of Palgaum, with only one thing on her mind: to put as much distance as she can between herself and the place she has come to call home for the past year, for her very family members—husband and mother-in-law—are plotting to burn her alive that very night! What will she do now? Where will she go? Making her way through the dim-lit streets, there is only one name that comes to her mind—Kunal, the one man who has shown her friendship and respect in her new household. Hiding in his apartment, he becomes her protector. As the forbidden attraction between them grows and complicates an already messy situation, will Kunal be successful in safeguarding Megha? Torn between her affections for Kunal and the conventional ethos of the society, which path will she choose? Follow Megha as she struggles to piece together her life and work towards an unblemished future, unveiling the brutal realities faced by the Dowry Brides.
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The 3Rd Woman
She cant save her sister Journalist - Madison Webb is obsessed with exposing lies and corruption. But she never thought she would be investigating her own sisters murder. She cant trust the police - Madison refuses to accept the official line that Abigails death was an isolated crime. She uncovers evidence that suggests that Abi was the third victim in a series of killings thats been hushed up as part of a major conspiracy. She can exposethe truth - In a United States that has yielded to the Peoples Republic of China, corruption is rife - the government dictates what the truth is. With her life on the line, Madison must give up the story or face the consequences.
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The 6Th Extinction
A remote military research station sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command - Kill us all! Personnel from the neighboring base rush in to discover everyone already dead and not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square miles is annihilated - every animal, plant and insect, even bacteria. The land is entirely sterile and the blight is spreading. To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must unravel a threat that rises out of the distant past, to a time when Antarctica was green and all life on Earth balanced upon the blade of a knife. Following clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of Alexandria, Sigma will discover the truth about an ancient continent, about a new form of death buried under miles of ice. From millennia old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge to date - stopping the coming extinction of mankind. But is it already too late?
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The English Spy
She is an iconic member of the British Royal Family, beloved for her beauty and charitable works, resented by her former husband and his mother, the Queen of England. When a bomb explodes aboard her holiday yacht, British intelligence turns to one man to track down her killer - legendary spy and assassin Gabriel Allon. Gabriels target is Eamon Quinn, a master bomb maker and mercenary of death who sells his services to the highest bidder. Fortunately Gabriel does not pursue him alone, at his side is Christopher Keller, a British commando turned professional assassin who knows Quinns murderous handiwork all too well. And though Gabriel does not realize it, he is stalking an old enemy - a cabal of evil that wants nothing more than to see him dead. Gabriel will find it necessary to oblige them, for when a man is out for vengeance, death has its distinct advantages.
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Finding Audrey
A laugh-out-loud romance from the bestselling author of the Shopaholic series. Meet Audrey: an ordinary teenage girl with not so ordinary problems. Aside from her completely crazy and chaotic family, she suffers from an anxiety disorder which makes talking to her brother's hot new best friend a bit of a challenge. But Audrey has a plan to help her face her fears and take on the world again. First stop - Starbucks.
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The Bone Tree
Former prosecutor Penn Cage faces the crisis of a lifetime. His family has been torn apart and his father made a fugitive after being accused of murdering an African-American nurse. Now, Penn has unwittingly started a war with the Double Eagles, a violent faction of the KKK who know more about Dr. Tom Cage than Penn ever did. Tracking his father through Natchez and beyond, Penn is targeted by criminals and corrupt police whose power reaches the top levels of state government - people who will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from coming out. To clear Toms name, Penn must either make a deal with the devil or destroy him. But there are others pursuing a different mission - one which will lead them to the Bone Tree, a legendary killing site that conceals far more than the remains of the dead.
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Tell Me a Story
Tell Me a Story is a collection of heartwarming stories about events and incidents that have affected or changed the lives of the writers in ways that they cannot forget. Happy or sad, inspiring or shocking, these are stories of moments that have left an indelible mark on their lives. Stories, that they would love to share. Selected by Ravinder Singh, Tell Me a Story is about moments that make life worth living. It is the second such anthology, after the highly successful Love Stories that Touched My Heart
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Summer Rental
"Sometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right direction...." Ellis, Julia, and Dorie. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid-thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Ellis, recently fired from a job she gave everything to, is rudderless and now beginning to question the choices she's made over the past decade of her life. Julia--whose caustic wit covers up her wounds--has a man who loves her and is offering her the world, but she can't hide from how deeply insecure she feels about her looks, her brains, her life. And Dorie has just been shockingly betrayed by the man she loved and trusted the most in the world...though this is just the tip of the iceberg of her problems and secrets. A month in North Carolina's Outer Banks is just what they each of them needs. Ty Bazemore is their landlord, though he's hanging on to the rambling old beach house by a thin thread. After an inauspicious first meeting with Ellis, the two find themselves disturbingly attracted to one another, even as Ty is about to lose everything he's ever cared about. Maryn Shackleford is a stranger, and a woman on the run. Maryn needs just a few things in life: no questions, a good hiding place, and a new identity. Ellis, Julia, and Dorie can provide what Maryn wants; can they also provide what she needs? Five people questioning everything they ever thought they knew about life. Five people on a journey that will uncover their secrets and point them on the path to forgiveness. Five people who each need a sea change, and one month in a summer rental that might just give it to them.
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The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Wi
Sitting Quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting dor a party he doesn't want to begin. his one hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But as it turns out, Alan will not.... Escaping (in his slippers) trough his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminal, several murders, a suitcase full of cash and incompetent police.
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The Emperor Waltz
The Emperor Waltz is a single novel with three narrative strands, fourth century Rome, 1920s Germany and 1980s London. In each place, a small coterie is closely connected and separated from the larger world. In each story, the larger world regards the small coterie and its passionately held beliefs and secrets with suspicion and hostility. It is the story of eccentricity, its struggle, its triumph, its influence but also its defeat.