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The Enemy Within

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Literary Fiction https://www.amazon.ca/Enemy-Within-Novel-Nalini-Warriar/dp/0987748424/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1572456735&sr=1-1   350 pages, 2016.            ISBN 9780-9877-484-2-3   Spanning three decades, set against the backdrop of Quebec politics, a memorable portrait of a woman caught between worlds. Synopsis  Sita has always had men in her life. But they’ve always loved her less than she did them. First, her father, a cold and distant man; then her husband. But things change when she loses her baby girl, Sita sees clearly for the first time and her heart hardens. As her children grow up, so does she. While at university her professor, Julian Brannigan falls in love with her. But Sita is very married so he keeps his secret. Then in Heidelberg, Germany, where Sita is getting her postdoctoral training in Dr. Seidel’s lab, Miguel Santiago wants to sweep her off her feet if only she’ll let him. To S

Fireflies in the Night

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Fireflies in the Night Historical, Literary Fiction. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HZS28CW   EXCERPT Chapter one Eastward In 1957, Achankulangara Namboodiripad Krishnan sits on the side veranda of his rented home in Madurai in the state of Madras, South India, three wet betel leaves clutched in his hand. With the end of his shirt tail, he wipes them dry. Opening a silver box in which he keeps condiments, he spreads pink lime paste with a silver spoon on each of the three leaves using his bent knee to hold them together. From another pot he uses his fingers to sprinkle fragrant betel nut shavings spiced with cloves and cinnamon over the paste. The final layer is sweet grated coconut. After rolling the leaves, he places the packet in his mouth and chews. He does this slowly, for the roll is rather large and his tongue often gets caught between his teeth. He savours the burst of flavour filling his mo

Karma's Smoothie

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Synopsis Karma's Slow Burn. Rafael Henley cannot ignore the chemistry between him and Karma. He decides a one-night stand is in order. Karma agrees. Just to get that itch off. But once they get into each other’s pants, things get complicated. Excerpt Karma Deepika Huntington learned to fight the hard way: in the bleachers in a baseball stadium where a fan did not like what she’d written about his team. With his arm on her neck, her back had been pressed so tight against the hard bench behind her, she could feel her back about to split. If she hadn’t rammed her fist in his disgusting groin, something even more terrible would have happened. Then the second the fan’s hold had relaxed, she pumped her knee into said disgusting spot again. She had learned to hit first and hard and then to walk away without looking back. The revenge she had planned for Rafael Henley was going to take time and lots of patience. But it would be sweet. Then Rafael Henley, star pitcher for the