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Kaye Hawkins thinks her brother Buddy's girlfriends are geeks until she is bitten by the love bug herself. Although she's Buddy's most ardent supporter when he gets a bad rap as a heart breaker, she discovers that being a girl is anything but easy, and becoming a woman is a very serious venture.

This is a random collection of Heidi's work. 'If you loved me' is about an up and coming vedette and pop musician. 'Swamp' is about a hard-up divorcee in Louisiana. 'Kind Hearted Woman Blues' is about a singer who falls in love with a drifter. 'Losing Twenty Pounds' is a fun look at diets and 'Ain't Goin' Nowhere' is a short autobiography.

When you're searching for your purpose, the last thing you expect to discover is that you're the latest reincarnation of a goddess on a three thousand year old mission to defeat the original werewolf, Lycaon, before he can gain revenge on Zeus and Olympus.

Rescued from the claws of werewolves by Julian, a handsome and mysterious immortal, Lauren is pulled into a dark and frightening new world full of monsters out to kill her and an organisation of people with phenomenal abilities who want to protect her-Ghost. But the most frightening thing of all is that soon Lauren will need to drink Julian's blood in order to reawaken and regain her immortal powers.

Or she will die.

Julian isn't about to let that happen. He's never met anyone like Lauren and he's determined not to lose her. She's the perfect copy of Illia but is nothing like her or any of the incarnations. She is light to their darkness, and she breathes life back into him, but can he trust her with his heart and bring himself to believe that the feelings she shows him are real after everything he has been through?

Can Lauren succeed in defeating Lycaon when all of her predecessors have failed? Will she be able to crack the armour around Julian's heart and seize her happily forever after with him?

'Stories Varied' depict women's dilemmas in the Indian social milieu with ingenuous denouements.

While 'Ilaa's Ire' provides a contrasting picture of the woman of the day and the one of the yore, '201 Qualms' is about her predicament when torn between personal loyalty and public responsibility.

When "?" addresses woman's marital stress in an alien land, 'Cupid's Clue' leads to a rebound on extra marital strain.

Even as 'Autumn Love' enables woman discover the marital void in her life, 'A Touchy Affair' moulds her to accommodate the other woman in her man's life.

Just as 'Love's How's That" inflames woman's old flame, 'A Hearty Turn' brings her innate lesbian leanings to the fore.

If 'Love Jihad' helps woman to bridge religious divide with secular plank, 'Tenth Nook' brings about her marital gulf on the material ground.

While, 'Eleventh Hour' is about woman's lust for love, 'Twelfth Tale' underscores her zest for power.

These twelve stories, indeed all my fictional works, were born out of my conviction that for fiction to impact readers, it should be soulful rendering of characters rooted in their native soil but not the hotchpotch of local and alien caricatures sketched on a hybrid canvas.  

Strange how tragedy, infidelities and one very mysterious door can keep two people together? Lyle and Lucinda Henderson's household is anything but pleasant. Penny Henderson, who has worked a maid for Lucinda, feels as if she has been in their employ for what seems like an eternity. Maybe she has.

Granny wants Kai to start visiting her mom in prison. She is hoping that they can build a better mother-daughter relationship. Granny knows that she may not live long. Kai will need to have a bond with her mother when Granny passes and mom is released.

"Granny..." I started, shifting so that I may look at her. She looked back at me intently, wondering what else it was that I may say. I pursed my lips for a moment before I continued: "I was just wondering... what will happen to me once... well... once you can't keep taking care of me anymore?"

Contemporary young adult novel, THE PRINCES OF TANGLEFOREST, was inspired by the classic fairy tale, Rapunzel, and sprinkled with the question: What if the school's misfits discovered a way to use mind control in order to become the popular group?

Saving Rose Green is a short story that tells the tale of Rose Green, who is an inch away from unravelling the truth when the key witness to exposing one of the most ugliest crimes ever committed is killed.

Thinking she is backed by the most trusted organisation she gets caught up in the never-ending war between two worlds and their idea of a free world.

About the Author:

Richard Shekari is a singer, lyricist, poet and novelist. Author; The Broken Wings of Forgivenss, Anna the Human, Saving Rose Green.

He currently lives in Abuja, Nigeria and works as a Humanitarian agent with the National Emergency Management Agency, Nigeria.

An Alumnus of the Federal Universitty of Technology, bauchi,

The blurb is meant to draw readers to the book for it to hold them till the very end. It's the uniqueness of Glaring Shadow in that its opening lines double up for its blurb; here it is how:

He had the soul of our times, and is the namesake of many. He tamed success by the scruff of its neck, only to fuel envy in our neighborhood. When it seemed there was no stopping him, fate dealt him a deadly blow in his early sixties. Besides losing his wife, son and daughter-in-law with their children in that fatal road mishap, he found his leg mangled in the debris of their Ferrari. The intensity of the pity all felt for him seemed to match the magnitude of his loss, but as he became a recluse, his thought eluded all, and in due course, his tragedy became a thing of the past. But, in time, his intriguing behavior brought him back to the top of the page three in the local media - why he had disposed off his lucrative real estate for a song that left the realtors in the lurch. And as if to create a newsflash in the business world, he had off-loaded his considerable stockholding, which sent the bulls running for cover in the country's bourses. Soon, even as the scrip was crunching in the bear hug, the closure of his umpteen bank accounts earned him the national headlines, as it heralded a first rate liquidity crisis in the country's banking system. But even in that gloomy setting, it cost me a fortune to acquire his palatial bungalow the outhouse of which he had... Click here to read the full description!