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Sreejan Guha Niyogi’s A Love to Die For

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” Benjamin Franklin.

The entire class is shocked when beautiful and popular Nili falls for Anand, the college geek. He doesn’t hang out with friends, doesn’t party and doesn’t have a hope in hell of getting a girlfriend. But as fate would have it, they meet and with a little bit of help from his best friend Asha, become a couple.

But then a series of strange and threatening incidents begin to occur. Asha is pushed in front of a speeding metro train, Nili has a car accident and all three begin to receive death threats. It is up to Anand to discover the truth behind it all.

Against a backdrop of violence stirred up by state elections in Kolkata, Anand must fight to save the one he loves and the one who loves him. But as he battles for his love, he discovers a dark truth that shakes the very foundation of that love. Not all love stories have a happy ending—will this love story have one?

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Pamela Q Fernandes’ Seoul-Mates

Jilted by the man she followed to Seoul, Katia has hit rock bottom. But within months, her whirlwind romance and marriage to Jihan has everyone talking.

Jihan is the heir to the Kwan business empire while Katia is a foreigner, an Anglo-Indian who has no business ensnaring Seoul’s most eligible bachelor. No one knows that their marriage is based on a contract, and that they have come together for their own ulterior motives.

Together in chic, metropolitan Seoul, the two forge a relationship that is tested by intrigue, jilted lovers and a hidden nemesis. Despite it all, the two find a love that is as beautiful as a cherry blossom—and as fragile.

Can their newfound love survive the forces ranged against them? Or will the vows they took be in vain?

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Neelima’s Unsettled

In a bid to save their marriage Divya and Raghav go to the eccentric Dr. Ray, who persuades them to go on a treacherous quest to find the mythical Scrolls of Love. Written five hundred years ago by the banished court poet Shankara, they are fabled to have the power to heal and reignite lost love.

In the hundred-roomed house, the couple find a femme fatale Yakshi spirit, drowned in centuries of loneliness, who is awakened by the potential chase and is enraged that the couple want what she guards so fiercely.

In a house infested with dreams and poetry, where will the search for love take their hearts?

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Anand Betanabhotla’s Magnificent Loss

Avinash is haunted by his past, troubled in the present, and uncertain of what the future holds.

Escaping from his loss, he moves to Hyderabad where he teaches history and tries to make sense of his own story. But then, he meets Syamala, and in spite of his resolve not to get involved again, he begins to fall for her.

But his new love is haunted by a series of visions, apparitions and nightmares that foreshadow an impending disaster. He battles to come to terms with what he lost and why, only to be confronted by his worst fears all over again. Has his journey only brought him back to the start, and will he once again, lose the one he loves most?