His protection. Her faith.
An everlasting love.
When undercover agent Lexi York shows up demanding protection, ex-Marine Gunner Steele has every reason to turn her away. Celeste is missing, his family is battling many demons, and the pressure is killing him on the inside.
He’s ready to slam the door, until she reveals she has the lead he’s been hunting for ages.
Whip-smart and dangerously irresistible, she is a complication Gunner doesn’t need—and the only woman
who’s ever made him question his mission. Soon the line between protector and temptation blurs into something far more lethal.
In this game, trust is deadly. And love could be your most expensive—and intoxicating—mistake.
With the past closing fast, Gunner is forced to confront what burns deeper: the revenge consuming him, or the woman who might finally pull him back from the edge.
HIs protection. Her love.
An irresistible bond.
And when a killer comes for her, Axel Steele is the only one standing between her and death.
A former special-ops Marine, Axel is the quiet Steele brother—the planner, the protector, the one who keeps chaos at bay. Routine is his armour; control is his weapon.
Until the night he finds Erika Zajac, a defiant, beautiful, reckless labyrinth of a woman hiding secrets that could get her killed.
She’s fire. He’s ice. And the spark between them is immediate, impossible, and addictive.
With long-buried family tensions threatening to explode, and Erika’s past catching up with her, Ax finds himself caught in the crossfire of fate.
Every touch, every glance fans a wildfire he cannot contain.
The killer is relentless, the stakes high—but the biggest threat of all may be the woman daring him to feel
alive again.
His protection. Her heart.
A love that changes everything.
After a brutal attack leaves prosecutor Niki Avery on the run, she takes refuge at a remote security compound—under the protection of Gage Steele, a former Marine with a lethal temper and a magnetic pull she can’t resist.
Gage never wanted to return home to take over his late father’s security firm. But the moment Niki walks through his door—sharp, stubborn, and breathtaking—everything changes.
Secrets about his father’s suspicious death surface, and danger stalks her again.
Niki is his client. Completely off-limits. But why does he feel like she only belongs to him?
Now Gage must choose: maintain his distance and risk losing her—or cross the line and claim the woman who could destroy everything he’s built.
Protecting her is survival. Wanting her is inevitable.
‘The pieces looked like lifeless soldiers. But in Vishy’s mind, they were alive.’
To everyone else, the chessboard was just black-and-white squares. To Vishy, it was a fantastical world of leaping knights, swooping bishops, shape-shifting pawns and clever queens. With Amma as his opponent, every match was a battle of wits waiting to unfold.
Could Vishy outsmart Amma and find the winning move? And could these early games prepare him for the greatest chess stages in the world?
620 CE. Mamallapuram, India.
Twelve-year-old Pallavi’s father works at the royal court of Mamallapuram. Pallavi spends her days in its magnificent library, studying with her best friend Shobavathi and dreaming of becoming a scholar. But life at court is unpredictable.
When her father loses his job and is banished by the king for misconduct, Pallavi is forced to leave her lessons to help her stepmother run a seaside shop. But she cannot turn her back on her education. She secretly scribbles poems in hidden spots to practice writing Tamil. When a jug with a poem etched on it is discovered, it thrills scholars of the kingdom but also alerts its enemies. Suddenly, Pallavi finds herself thrust into a mysterious Chalukya plot to bring down the Pallava empire. To make matters worse, a strange woman arrives and shatters Pallavi’s world with a dark family secret.
Caught amidst spies, secrets, and betrayal, can Pallavi stop the Chalukyas, figure out whom to trust, and forgive her family’s hidden truths?
‘Our friends come to us by chance or by choice. They will not be with us all the time, but somehow, they will be around when we need them.’
ALL-TIME FAVOURITE FRIENDSHIP STORIES is a collection of twenty-five soulful and timeless tales about friendship in all its beautiful, surprising forms, featuring unforgettable characters and evocative illustrations.
From ‘The Playing Fields of Simla’ and ‘Rusty and Somi’ to ‘The Hidden Pool’ and ‘Two Boys and a Tiger’, each
story is filled with the warmth of companionship. There are schoolyard rivalries that turn into ties of loyalty,
chance encounters that become uncanny connections, friendships with animals and with nature itself and rare bonds that endure across distance, years and memory.
Curated by Ruskin Bond, this collection celebrates loyalty and longing, mischief and forgiveness, friendships that withstand time and separation and the magic of finding—and keeping—a friend.
One night, Rudra, a young man who lives in Mumbai, wakes up to find himself covered in snow in the Himalayas. He is puzzled with his situation and manages to crawl to a cave nearby. There he meets a sage who offers him water. His past lives slowly unravel in his mind. Rudra remembers that he was named as ‘Poorna’ in his past life, and he was a yogi. Guided by the sage, he embarks on a journey to meet his guru, and this is the beginning of his many learnings and experiences.
Young, self-driven and adventurous, Poorna goes on to have intensely intriguing and inspiring escapades and heart-stopping explorations, some of which transpire even beyond planet Earth, and all this with an amazing culmination towards a new beginning!
In Dalit Women and the Fullness of Life, Christina Dhanuja confronts the narrow frames that have long confined how Dalit women are seen and understood. Too often rendered as symbols of all-consuming suffering or resilience alone, these are human lives flattened and portrayed without interiority and wholeness. This book refuses that erasure.
With candour and clarity, Dhanuja examines how reductive and unidimensional narratives take hold in institutions, media discourse and social imagination, and what it takes to break them apart. She asks what becomes possible when Dalit women are recognized as complex, desiring beings: capable of joy and contradiction, intimacy and power, fragility and fullness.
Blending memoir with sharp social analysis, the book situates lived experience within structures of caste, gender, faith and community. The result is a soulful and provocative work—one that insists on fullness as a political, ethical and imaginative horizon for Dalit women.
We cannot change the world around us, but we can change the world within us—and that makes all the difference.
What if we made the first move towards being a better person by being more mindful of what we do each day, and more observant of the gifts life has given us? What if, by doing so, we could change the environment within us?
Be Better, Live Better is not just a guide to better living, it’s a deeper understanding of how things are, how they should be and what steps we can take towards bettering our inner and outer life. It is about reconnecting with our truer self and finding what we have lost to today’s fast-paced environment.
Hansaji draws teachings from various scriptures, ancient texts and thought leaders from across the world and distils it all into a programme that is both simple and interesting to follow. It also gives you enough food for thought to carve your own path and create your own blueprint to happiness.
Go ahead, discover the joy of a better life, a better you!
Are you creative? Is creativity the preserve of a select few—or is it something we all possess? And is creativity the same as intelligence? Everyday Creativity explores these questions and more, drawing inspiration and insight from remarkable creators across art, science, politics, sports and even the military. From Amir Khusro to A.R. Rahman, and Leonardo da Vinci to Haruki Murakami, the book distils timeless practices that can help you unlock your own creative potential. Complementing these stories are over twenty-five proven methods of creative problem-solving—designed to move you beyond common sense and towards a more structured, powerful approach to thinking creatively.
