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Lila is a feisty restaurant owner who cares about real flavors, while Adrian is a classy chef at a posh hotel. They cross paths during the food convention, and that electricity between them was a fight and a spark all at once. Their style of cooking was worlds apart, their personas quite the clash. Lila cooked bold and rustic with recipes from the family, which directly opposed Adrian's polished and avant-garde cuisine. But when they're forced into a collaboration for a high-stakes cooking competition, sparks fly both in and out of the kitchen.Reluctantly becoming partners, they find themselves in the middle of a string of funny misadventures and misunderstandings that feed into the tension between them. Along the way, they let slip secrets about each other's pasts and desires, and they come to understand that they have much more in common than initially thought. But one surprising turn may tear the budding romance apart: Adrian is secretly connected with Lila's biggest business competitor, and their love may well bring about her losing everything she has built.With their hearts and professional reputations on the line, Lila and Adrian must navigate jealous rivals and culinary catastrophes to figure out whether their relationship can stand the heat.…

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Sweet-Tooth: A Taste of Love in Every Bite, is a romantic-comedy about Laila, a feisty Filipina expat with a sweet tooth, and Khalid, an Omani man whose love for sweets knows no bounds. They come together, quite by accident, in a busy cafe in Muscat, brewing into this unlikely romance that is nurtured through their love of sweets. With cultural misunderstandings, dessert debates, and hilarious mishaps, the two are drawn to each other in ways they least expect. As they draw closer, they must reconcile their cultural differences and personal dreams to see whether their love can…

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In A World Between Us, two cultures clashes and love is challenged in the vibrant heart of New York City. The determined writer from the Philippines, Maya Hernandez, leaves her life in Manila for New York because she craves adventure and new opportunities. While she cherishes her Filipino heritage and family traditions, the overwhelming city feels daunting and alien to her. One fateful afternoon, she meets an equally charming, Irish American architect, Liam O'Reilly, and a spark ignites between the two.As their love develops, they also face the challenges of an interracial relationship. Maya and Liam have to adjust to each other's cultures as they seek a way to be with each other in light of remorseless family and tradition opposition. Both face internal conflict in their love as they try to navigate through the expectations of their separate worlds, each wondering how far the love can go in overcoming cultural barriers.This sensitive narrative illustrates the challenges as well as the pleasures of building a life with another person whose culture and values are different from one's own. Therefore, A World Between Us is the story of courage, reconciliation as well as the power of love, which is capable of overcoming even the widest chasms of civilization.…

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The story Beneath the Skies, She Soared is one of persistence, passion, and the power of dreams. It illustrates that despite who you are, there is always a possibility of a positive transformation that can change the present in the region of your past. From the dusty backstreets of her village to the sparkling city skyscrapers, Laila's journey is one that fills hope and teaches that, reaching the destination is not all about winning for oneself, it is also about bringing others up the ladder as well.…

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Echoes of Forgotten Wings is deeply tragic and engrossing tale that fantasy and human drama interlace, with a very special emphasis on the human factor. In the very beginning we meet Ivo - a young boy who cherishes a sound of family warmth and at the same time learns that the very warmth comes from those who betrayed once, causing the fall of Skyborns, the once greatest and most revered winged race among humans. As Ivo comes to know the dark side of his family's history, where the once-celebrated Skyborn are no longer powerful, he is faced with the question, whether he is willing to lose his life in the quest to redeem the other fallen ones or let their memory die forever. Echoes of Forgotten Wings is also concerned with the inconsistency of human quest for power and the ancient forces which it is incapable of controlling, through the themes of guilt, self-immolation and cost of liberty. Readers will be moved by this book because it has elaborated and picturesque narration that portrays well every detail of the plot making one ponder about their choices.…