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You Can Tell Me by Melinda Leigh

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  Three years ago, Olivia was abducted from the safety of her home. Who encroached her space? What did they do to her? How did she escape? These are questions you are immediately forced to ask, to which there are very vague answers. We know she survived.  On the anniversary of that very traumatic incident, Olivia was to meet her best friend Zoe and record an interview for a podcast. Zoe and Olivia have been friends from their journalistic days and to be with the times, Zoe had moved on to record true crime podcast. She researched on missing persons cases. Olivia's interview would surely add value to her podcast. As Zoe wrapped up her podcast for the evening, she received a message on her phone, paralyzing her with fear. Olivia had received a message from Zoe the previous evening that she would like to meet to discuss the questions to be asked during the interview, but that meeting never happened, because Zoe did not turn up to the decided place. Super unlikely of Zoe to not ke...

Your Next Life Is Now by Namrata Patel

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  Tara has been married for close to three odd decades now to Deven. Their marriage was one of compromise and in "those" days, arranged marriages were just that. Tara always wanted to study further but as typical Indian households would want it, irrespective if they were in India or anywhere on this planet, would suggest that the daughter of marriageable age first get married and then do whatever she would like with the permission of her husband and new family. Having come to that understanding Tara agrees to be married. But, obviously life does not turn out that way. Deven wants to set up his practice first and Tara's life has to take the back seat. Life moves on. Tara and Deven have two beautiful daughters - Heena & Nikki. Tara brings them up as self sufficient, learned women of the new century.   But, she has one wrong expectation of them - that they live their life, sans marriage, on their own terms and confidently etc. It was wrong to have even be holding the ide...