Publisher: Brenda Nevarez
Can cross casually, carry the infinite crossing system; Congratulations to the host for having completed his mission in this world, Please select the next crossing point. "Said a cute girl's voice.
What is your poison? The love you cannot receive or the love you cannot give. Meet Itika Benegal, 31, single. Itika spirals towards a hasty resignation from a firm she had reluctantly joined eight months ago. Reason? Her invisible dent. Men. Two decades of her life have gone sleep-walking through a painful past. Dimming her own shine, making herself invisible in plain sight. How? Oversized clothes & lack-lustre appearance are her weapons of camouflage. She has no friends, no boy-friends, no dating history or social media presence. Itika has turned on the airplane mode in her life, wanting no attention from the world. But life suddenly decides to go rogue on her, sending her the perfect antidote for her darkness. Meet Sunny Nair, 38, single, accomplished, and the most influential partner of ANB & Associates. The angry-young man is all out to destroy Itika Benegal's nascent career, the very night he is introduced to her in an office party. Reason? His invisible dent. Women. Sunny has spent two decades of his solitary life in flamboyance. Wanting women, more importantly the broken ones. Sunny makes one terrible mistake. Believing Itika is broken. Set in a corporate landscape, the story will transport you into the minds of two competing lawyers, while journeying into the realms of their lesser-known sides. As Sunny & Itika collide in a strange encounter do they realise that they have more in common than meets the eye. Will Sunny & Itika be able to soften their rough edges and find a home in each other? Or will the shards of their painful past turn them into bleeding hearts in motion? Some journeys are insane. Especially the ones that begin at a dead-end. Brace for impact.Show book
Bookish astrophysicist Angela Knight occasionally hires out her services via an internet consulting site. She's pleasantly surprised to find herself knocking on the door of attractive YouTuber Julie Jones to report for a gig. On the surface, Julie is self-assured and apparently very friendly. But Angela soon discovers that, underneath the pleasant exterior, she's stumbled onto a crackpot alien conspiracy theorist. Will Julie's outlandish theories about lost alien civilizations be enough to send Angela running for the hills, or will she take it as a chance to add some fun to her otherwise serious life?Show book
This story, by the famous author of Dracula, is about vampires and evil incarnate. The story opens showing a young man finding a young woman he knows behind bars, having been imprisoned and raped. He swears to get her out and the scene cuts to six months earlier. The young man is Bram Stoker and he has a relationship with Admiral Murray's daughter, Elizabeth in Victorian England. He works in a real estate company and has just given his career a boost by finding a home for the firm's new client, Count Dracula. The Admiral is not impressed with Bram and insists he and Elizabeth observe a year's separation to test their love before he'll give his blessing to their marriage. Bram accepts and leaves to begin his year but Elizabeth is rebellious and runs off, presumably to find Bram in Scotland. She gets waylaid by the Count at the train station where he abducts her to his home in Transylvania. Bram's friend Malcolm rushes to find Bram and tell him about the abduction but is caught and killed by Dracula at Stoker's apartment. He had told his business to Mrs. Withen the landlady, before he died so Bram was able to get the information he needed and rushed off to her rescue. He is accosted twice on the road to the Slovak region, once in France and the second time in Germany on Walpurgisnacht. Meanwhile, the Admiral is also on his way to rescue his daughter. We come again to the scene where Bram finds Elizabeth imprisoned in her underground chamber and he then begins a death-defying climb up the side of the mountain to where he can enter the castle. He challenges the Count to a fight in which he is clearly outmatched and when the Count abandons him the Admiral catches up to Bram in the mausoleum. He sends the young man on to find his daughter, while he searches for Dracula. The two older men meet up in front of the dungeon grating shortly after Bram finds Elizabeth and fight. The Admiral wins in spite of taunting by the Count and the scene fades out.Show book
In a world of manners and matrimony, one man's secret could upend all Longbourn is abuzz with the arrival of Mr. Collins, a clergyman who will one day inherit the estate. But his true intention—to secure a wife—is complicated by a hidden identity: he is the secret author of popular romance novels. His sights are set on the beautiful Jane Bennet, whose gentle nature and family obligations make her the perfect target. Elizabeth, ever protective of her sister, senses that something is amiss with Mr. Collins. Her suspicions lead her on a path of discovery, drawing the attention of wealthy, reserved Mr. Darcy. As Elizabeth delves deeper, she finds herself caught between uncovering the truth and a growing affection for a man who she knows is unattainable. Fitzwilliam Darcy is in Hertfordshire on an errand for his aunt, nothing more. The last thing he wants is to fall in love. But when he encounters lovely, intriguing Elizabeth Bennet, Darcy’s carefully constructed defenses begin to crumble. As he becomes entangled in the mystery surrounding Mr. Collins, Darcy must decide who he can trust. Should he risk his heart in a world where appearances can be deceiving? Laura Hile's Pretty in Print is a joyous Regency romp, blending your friends from Pride and Prejudice with a lighthearted mystery. Be swept away into a world of secrets, romance, and the so-called power of the written word.Show book
The Latin phrase, jus soli (“right of the soil”), is an unconditional right of a person born within the territory of a country to be conferred citizenship. Singapore’s nationality law is based on jus sanguinis (“right of blood”, in which citizenship is determined by that of one or both parents) and a modified form of jus soli (with at least one Singaporean parent). A two-time Singapore Literature Prize winner, Yong Shu Hoong contemplates how a person is invariably bound to the land on which he first sets foot. These poems address topics like belongingness and birthright by exploring the intermingling of the four fundamental elements of air, water, fire and earth. Expanded from a 2016 chapbook published a year after the 50th anniversary of Singapore’s independence, this book also attempts to sharpen Yong’s understanding of his relationship with his homeland. A new sequence of poems then plunges readers into Hell, reimagined as Singapore’s third integrated resort that opens underground in the centennial year of 2065, with its concepts inspired by Haw Par Villa’s main attraction, the 10 Courts of Hell. Beyond our earthly lives, is it soil – or another element or dimension – that will assert its right to claim us? Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry 2020Show book
Ryan Avery is on the lookout for clones. Ever since he was a young man, he's been fascinated by the science behind biotech research and how cloning has developed from Dolly the sheep to the latest clones adults who live among us. But even though he buries himself in research, Ryan cannot seem to find a single clone out in the world. This changes when he stumbles upon men in a cruising park. Since the only feature that differentiates clones from humans is the appearance of a navel, Ryan believes he will find the answer to what he's seeking by following men into the park and seeking out what he's always wanted. Of course, like with all scientific discoveries, Ryan is about to find out more than he ever thought possible.Show book
