Böcker av Cindy Pereira

When Adrian Fray of the Bar F had been bushwhacked, the town marshal pointed the finger of suspicion at Marty Savern of the Box S Ranch. He had every motive for killing the young rancher. However, since Marty had his alibis strong - or so it appeared - the mysterious murder remained unsolved until Marty's younger brother, Kane, returned home to Battle Mesa Valley. Kane Savern had to play his cards very close and track down a shadow killer simply called 'Lefty Right.'

In 'Home As The Birds Fly,' the author allows the protagonist, Doug Geoghegan, a young professor of English at a junior college in Bangalore, to narrate the story of his life in his own way. He writes about the boyish, and passionate love he had for one woman who had an agenda of her own, and about another, his friend from childhood, who slowly drifted away from him. He sometimes quotes from an old diary, jumping forward, and then backward, and then forward again, narrating his memories as they came back to him. 'Home As The Birds Fly' is a love story; a story of a young man who describes his emotional journey back home, back to the girl he could never stop loving.But who is this woman? Is she the one with the red hair and the aqua-blue eyes? Or is she the one who, in truth was crazy for him? And then, after all the years of separation, does he go back home to her at last?

Something appeared to be amiss in the Anglo-Indian town of Landsend - Doug Geoghegan could feel it as he drove to work that morning. The two young men whom he'd noticed by the Cross Road looked hardened and desperate, and very familiar. About an hour later, all hell broke loose when 25 children of the Mount St. Joseph School and their teacher were taken hostage by two armed men. What made it personal was that Doug's wife, the school's Headmistress had also been with them at that time! Doug decided to act rather than just sit tight and wait for the police - but would he be able to get the children and the ladies with them to safety?

Though the themes in this collection of stories may vary and their style be dissimilar, every single one of them is identical in one aspect. Dabbling for the first time in "Nano Fiction" the author writes complete little plots of adventure, justice, mischief, grief and fear, some humorous and some quite the opposite.

The frail beggar woman wanted to change her life; she wanted all the nice things she often dreamed of when she rocked herself to sleep under the stars. She wanted to live in a big white house with a garden and a fence, and she wanted a comfortable bed to lie in when the nights turned cold. She wanted a big handbag filled with money and wanted to spend it on what-so-ever she liked. She wanted all the comforts that every rich woman had and wished that the means to possess these would come by her one day. But then, rather than step out into an unknown world that appeared to only promise a rat-race and hard work each day, she preferred the one she lived in presently. It was familiar and in some manner, easier.