Ajay Naidu

Exploring the secrets and complexities lying at the heart of family life and relationships, a collection of eight stories includes the title work, about a young mother in a new city whose father tends her garden while hiding a secret love affair.

Mobster Victoria Galetti, on a plane to L.A., has been ratted out. The police are waiting for her at the airport and she has a million dollars in cash that she needs to stash quickly. She puts the money in the bag of an Indian tourist who is visiting the States for the first time, taking his address tag so she can find the money later. What seems like a simple pick-up, turns into a problem when a dog buries the money.

We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the plague years.