Usha Reddy is the perfect Silicon Valley housewife — poised, polite, and invisible. Her days are filled with yoga, charity events, and making sure no one notices how hollow she's become.Then comes Ryan — a tattooed, twenty-something barista who offers more than just perfectly steeped chai. With every lingering glance, every brush of fingers over ceramic mugs, he peels back the layers of who Usha used to be. Curious texts turn to breathless encounters. Afternoon visits become ritual...

In a world sculpted by emotion, where towering mountains of ecstasy and plunging canyons of guilt mark the human heart, the Cartographers’ Guild guards a dangerous secret: maps of the soul, forbidden to all but the initiated. Amara Blake, a cartographer haunted by a forbidden love and a devastating loss, possesses a gift for translating the intangible into intricate, unsettlingly accurate maps of the heart's hidden territories. Bound by tradition yet driven by a desperate need to understan...

The Sun Shines Finally – A true Rags to Riches Story - (Short Story) One day, my father became so ill that he could do nothing more than lie in his bed, moaning in pain. We had no money for a doctor, but a lady from the village came one day to put herbs on his forehead. It didn’t ease his pain at all.       Family life, abuse romance, domestic abuse, abuse romance, abuse relationship, family life fiction, abuse,

Atticus O’Sullivan is back in an action-packed, laugh-out-loud novella from the author of The Iron Druid Chronicles. Two-thousand-year-old Atticus may have outwitted and outfought everyone from Odin to Bacchus, but he’s about to discover that what comes around when you go around messing with gods.Six years into the training of his beautiful apprentice, Granuaile, a large crow swoops down and transforms into none other than the Morrigan, a goddess who insists that A...

A powerful and honest force on TikTok, Harman Kaur's words are now in print. This is an exploration of the diverse manifestations of "home", extending beyond its mere physicality to womanhood, spirituality, and immigration.Explore the multifaceted concept of "home" through Kaur's evocative poetry. Journey beyond its physical confines to discover its emotional and psychological depths, touching on themes like immigration, womanhood, and spirituality.Encounter ...

Our decisions define us and our life is full of them.In this short story, Lata goes to a village fair with her husband, Ramesh, and has to decide- whether to buy old cheap bangles or try some new and costly ones- whether to drink juice or eat popular food items- whether to buy cheapest vermillion available in the village fair or notand lastly,- whether to buy the toy car which his son, Bannu, has asked last year.She has to take decision ke...

A physics student's talents are put to the test when he's transported to a world of magic and alchemical mysteries in the first book of a new fantasy series.Fact one: Edwin Maxlin has fallen out of the sky and landed in a strange forest. Fact two: messages keep appearing in his line of vision, informing him that he has leveled up in various Skills—including some truly thrilling abilities such as Walking and Breathing. Fact three: this is most definitely not Earth.

With elegant watercolors, Allen Say's beautiful picture book is a moving tribute to his parents and their path to discovering where home really is.At home in San Francisco, May speaks Japanese and the family eats rice and miso soup and drinks green tea. When she visits her friends’ homes, she eats fried chicken and spaghetti.May plans someday to go to college and live in an apartment of her own. But when her family moves back to Japan, she soon feels lost and homesick for A...

Those who serve the Warrior face the harshest of discipline. Trained from a young age to become lethal Hunters, they have no room in their ranks for the weak -- or for those who join them late.Her entire life, Seniade has felt a bond with the Warrior. Becoming a Hunter ought to be a dream come true. But first she has to prove herself worthy to stay . . . and she might just kill herself trying.Dancing the Warrior is a standalone novella set before the events of the ...

Broken by betrayal. Surrounded by destruction. United by hope.Aurianna must live with the consequences of her heartbreaking decisions in the aftermath of a betrayal too devastating to face.She and her friends have no idea who is trustworthy and who is scheming for power. Their only option is to seek assistance from two groups: one that no one thought to ask, and one that no one thought existed.The fate of Eresseia lies in the hands of those whose po...

Home Remembers Me: Medicine Poems from em claireis a collection of over ninety, awe-inspiring poems selected specifically for anyone in need of comfort, courage, and most of all: hope. Aimed at facilitating deep healing, the poetry offers companionship in times of crisis, taking us by the hand and, poem by poem, leading us out of the darkness and into the light.Silently read or memorized and used as mantra; written down and carried as a personal talisman; given as a gift, or shared aloud, ...

This book is for those who are interested in learning the English language fluently. This book contains a total of 2500+ English phrases/sentences. All the English phrases given in this book are used by English speakers in their daily life conversations.