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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What happens when love becomes a crime not because of action, but because of perception?What happens when family is both your anchor and your storm?Blood Pact: A Love That Rewrote the Rules is a searing, poetic novel chronicling the emotional journey of Manfred and Maggie, two siblings caught in the unforgiving crosshairs of cultural shame, systemic silence, and the unrelenting weight of legacy.In a small West African village shaped by doctrine and decorum, their bond is mistaken for something taboo. One quiet morning, the knock comes. No questions asked. The law arrives. And everything breaks.What follows is a heartbreaking unraveling. Through prison cells and interrogation rooms, through poetry scribbled on detention reports and silence that stretches across years, Maggie and Manfred lose everything-except each other. And even that, eventually, becomes a question.Years later, Maggie returns-not as a victim, but as a mother, a wife, a warrior of truth. The compound they once shared erupts with memory, grief, and unspoken words that demand to be heard. The house becomes a living witness to all that was stolen-and all that remains.In a powerful climax, their family, their village, and even their former accusers gather-not for punishment, but for listening. And when the manuscript of The Blood Pact is finally read aloud, history itself bends. The story no longer hides. It sings.Through haunting prose, sacred stillness, and lyrical monologues, Blood Pact examines: The politics of shame and silence in African communitiesThe weaponization of tradition against joyThe role of art in survivalHow a home can both haunt and healThis is a novel where mango trees remember, kitchens bear witness, and fire becomes ritual. Where love is not sanitized or simplified, but allowed to be messy, raw, and real. Where characters are not heroes or villains-but people, choosing daily whether to stay, run, or rebuild.A story told in fragments but felt in full, Blood Pact is a literary reckoning.It asks not just what it means to be free, but whether peace is possible after survival.Perfect for readers of Chinelo Okparanta, Ocean Vuong, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Bryan Washington, this is a novel that dares to look directly into the eyes of taboo-and refuses to look away. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Cost of Fire is a lyrical, unflinching novel about two South Asian women who meet at an elite American university and find themselves caught in a collision of desire, identity, and inherited trauma.Aalia, from Kerala, walks into every room with a storm behind her. She's sharp-tongued, unapologetically political, and weary of being reduced to a token brown girl. Her past is filled with silences and burn scars-visible and otherwise. Meera, from Delhi, is all polish and promise, the kind of girl who was raised to smile and shine, but never too brightly. When they meet in a classroom debating caste and colonialism, they clash. Then click. Then combust.Told in alternating voices and poetic fragments, The Cost of Fire explores the tender, volatile intimacy between two women who were never meant to fall in love-not by their families, not by their histories, and certainly not by the systems that watch them from every angle. Between whispered prayers and late-night panels, group chat screenshots and anonymous threats, this is a love that is always political, always dangerous, and always half a heartbeat from shattering.Aalia knows how to fight. Meera knows how to perform. But neither of them knows how to stay. As their bond deepens, so do the stakes: caste prejudice, family expectation, religious tension, academic gatekeeping, and the ever-present threat of surveillance. At the same time, their relationship unfolds with moments of breathtaking softness-a stolen cake at midnight, hands almost touching in the snow, poetry written and never sent.But love, they discover, is not always soft. Sometimes, it's a fist. A fire. A truth too loud to be silenced. And when home becomes a question and belonging a battlefield, the biggest risk may not be loving each other-it may be believing they deserve to.Fierce, lyrical, and devastatingly intimate, The Cost of Fire is a portrait of what it means to exist at the intersection of too many identities in a world that prefers you in pieces. It's a story about the politics of visibility, the cost of courage, and the radical act of being seen-and loved-without apology. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Blood Pact"Some stories do not begin with a first meeting. They begin with silence-a silence that learns to echo across walls, bloodlines, and decades."I was nineteen when I first loved Magam - our landlord's daughter, the girl with ledgers in her hands and lightning behind her eyes. She was seventeen, already fluent in numbers, duty, and the loneliness of being watched. We shared textbooks first, then glances, then breath. And beneath a tree older than our fear, we made a pact - not with rings, but with blood - because we knew the world wouldn't bless us. So, we sanctified ourselves. The world told us we were too young. Too poor. Too tribal. Too loud. Too silent. But love doesn't wait for permission. It grows like vines through the cracks of impossible walls - in stolen afternoons, in folded letters, in wrists held too long beneath the table.The Satanic Verses of Love Series: Blood Pact doesn't belong to the powerful. It belongs to those who whispered "yes" in a world built to shout "no." To those who buried their feelings in notebooks. Who loved like ghosts - unacknowledged but unrelenting. To those whose truth was called betrayal, whose memories were rewritten as mistakes. Some names were erased. Some bodies disappeared. But the wall? The wall remembered. So I wrote. Even when I wasn't sure who would read it. Even when the silence grew teeth. Because some stories are not told to be believed. They are told so we don't forget how to feel. And now, the story is no longer just mine. It belongs to those who returned. To those who ran. To those who stayed long enough to break. And to those who bled just enough to survive. This is not a love story. It's a resurrection. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In a small African town divided by tribal tradition and economic power, a gifted teenage boy from a struggling home falls in love with the last girl he should ever want - Magam, the intelligent and untouchable daughter of his family's wealthy landlords. What begins as tutoring sessions quietly evolves into a love neither of them dares name aloud. Their bond deepens through stolen letters, secret meetings, and a sacred blood pact sworn beneath moonlight, meant to bind them forever. But when jealousy, betrayal, and cultural politics converge, their world collapses. Siblings become strangers. Love becomes a liability. And silence becomes survival. Magam is forced into marriage. He disappears into exile. And for fifteen years, their love becomes a ghost story only the walls remember. Then, a letter arrives - unmarked but unmistakable - and with it, a chance to finish the story they were never allowed to write. Told with haunting lyricism and cinematic intimacy, Blood Pact is the first installment in The Satanic Verses of Love series-a sweeping, emotionally rich novel about forbidden love, intergenerational trauma, and the endurance of memory. It is a tribute to every soul who ever wrote a poem in the dark and waited for the light to find it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What happens when love becomes a crime not because of action, but because of perception?What happens when family is both your anchor and your storm?Blood Pact: A Love That Rewrote the Rules is a searing, poetic novel chronicling the emotional journey of Manfred and Maggie, two siblings caught in the unforgiving crosshairs of cultural shame, systemic silence, and the unrelenting weight of legacy.In a small West African village shaped by doctrine and decorum, their bond is mistaken for something taboo. One quiet morning, the knock comes. No questions asked. The law arrives. And everything breaks.What follows is a heartbreaking unraveling. Through prison cells and interrogation rooms, through poetry scribbled on detention reports and silence that stretches across years, Maggie and Manfred lose everything-except each other. And even that, eventually, becomes a question.Years later, Maggie returns-not as a victim, but as a mother, a wife, a warrior of truth. The compound they once shared erupts with memory, grief, and unspoken words that demand to be heard. The house becomes a living witness to all that was stolen-and all that remains.In a powerful climax, their family, their village, and even their former accusers gather-not for punishment, but for listening. And when the manuscript of The Blood Pact is finally read aloud, history itself bends. The story no longer hides. It sings.Through haunting prose, sacred stillness, and lyrical monologues, Blood Pact examines: The politics of shame and silence in African communitiesThe weaponization of tradition against joyThe role of art in survivalHow a home can both haunt and healThis is a novel where mango trees remember, kitchens bear witness, and fire becomes ritual. Where love is not sanitized or simplified, but allowed to be messy, raw, and real. Where characters are not heroes or villains-but people, choosing daily whether to stay, run, or rebuild.A story told in fragments but felt in full, Blood Pact is a literary reckoning.It asks not just what it means to be free, but whether peace is possible after survival.Perfect for readers of Chinelo Okparanta, Ocean Vuong, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Bryan Washington, this is a novel that dares to look directly into the eyes of taboo-and refuses to look away. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Cost of Fire is a lyrical, unflinching novel about two South Asian women who meet at an elite American university and find themselves caught in a collision of desire, identity, and inherited trauma.Aalia, from Kerala, walks into every room with a storm behind her. She's sharp-tongued, unapologetically political, and weary of being reduced to a token brown girl. Her past is filled with silences and burn scars-visible and otherwise. Meera, from Delhi, is all polish and promise, the kind of girl who was raised to smile and shine, but never too brightly. When they meet in a classroom debating caste and colonialism, they clash. Then click. Then combust.Told in alternating voices and poetic fragments, The Cost of Fire explores the tender, volatile intimacy between two women who were never meant to fall in love-not by their families, not by their histories, and certainly not by the systems that watch them from every angle. Between whispered prayers and late-night panels, group chat screenshots and anonymous threats, this is a love that is always political, always dangerous, and always half a heartbeat from shattering.Aalia knows how to fight. Meera knows how to perform. But neither of them knows how to stay. As their bond deepens, so do the stakes: caste prejudice, family expectation, religious tension, academic gatekeeping, and the ever-present threat of surveillance. At the same time, their relationship unfolds with moments of breathtaking softness-a stolen cake at midnight, hands almost touching in the snow, poetry written and never sent.But love, they discover, is not always soft. Sometimes, it's a fist. A fire. A truth too loud to be silenced. And when home becomes a question and belonging a battlefield, the biggest risk may not be loving each other-it may be believing they deserve to.Fierce, lyrical, and devastatingly intimate, The Cost of Fire is a portrait of what it means to exist at the intersection of too many identities in a world that prefers you in pieces. It's a story about the politics of visibility, the cost of courage, and the radical act of being seen-and loved-without apology. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What happens when love becomes a crime not because of action, but because of perception?What happens when family is both your anchor and your storm?Blood Pact: A Love That Rewrote the Rules is a searing, poetic novel chronicling the emotional journey of Manfred and Maggie, two siblings caught in the unforgiving crosshairs of cultural shame, systemic silence, and the unrelenting weight of legacy.In a small West African village shaped by doctrine and decorum, their bond is mistaken for something taboo. One quiet morning, the knock comes. No questions asked. The law arrives. And everything breaks.What follows is a heartbreaking unraveling. Through prison cells and interrogation rooms, through poetry scribbled on detention reports and silence that stretches across years, Maggie and Manfred lose everything-except each other. And even that, eventually, becomes a question.Years later, Maggie returns-not as a victim, but as a mother, a wife, a warrior of truth. The compound they once shared erupts with memory, grief, and unspoken words that demand to be heard. The house becomes a living witness to all that was stolen-and all that remains.In a powerful climax, their family, their village, and even their former accusers gather-not for punishment, but for listening. And when the manuscript of The Blood Pact is finally read aloud, history itself bends. The story no longer hides. It sings.Through haunting prose, sacred stillness, and lyrical monologues, Blood Pact examines: The politics of shame and silence in African communitiesThe weaponization of tradition against joyThe role of art in survivalHow a home can both haunt and healThis is a novel where mango trees remember, kitchens bear witness, and fire becomes ritual. Where love is not sanitized or simplified, but allowed to be messy, raw, and real. Where characters are not heroes or villains-but people, choosing daily whether to stay, run, or rebuild.A story told in fragments but felt in full, Blood Pact is a literary reckoning.It asks not just what it means to be free, but whether peace is possible after survival.Perfect for readers of Chinelo Okparanta, Ocean Vuong, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Bryan Washington, this is a novel that dares to look directly into the eyes of taboo-and refuses to look away. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Silk Noose begins with a whisper and ends in a scream. In the shimmering capital of Yaabinda, Eli Nduma-son of Chief Tombe Nduma, oil magnate and shadow kingmaker-is inducted into ENAM, the elite academy where the country's next rulers are forged. But privilege, power, and prestige come at a cost Eli can barely articulate, let alone escape.Born into legacy, but torn between obedience and identity, Eli steps into a world of marble floors and hidden knives. At the ceremony that cements his future, a mysterious stranger warns him: "The price has already been paid. but not by you." What unfolds is a slow descent into a maze of inherited corruption, unspoken sexual identity, and ancestral expectation. As Eli is pulled deeper into secret societies and elite rituals, the question becomes not whether he will survive the system-but whether his soul will. When a dream of fire leaves a flame burning under his skin, Eli can no longer pretend he is untouched. His admission to ENAM, far from a triumph, is the beginning of a dangerous initiation-into loyalty, into power, into secrets so ancient they bleed into myth. When he discovers a dossier with his name circled in red, he realizes his life is not only controlled-it's been foretold. Haunted by visions, burdened by legacy, and tempted by love that must remain hidden, Eli is forced to choose between who he is and who the nation demands he become. In a country where truth is treason, where silence is survival, and where even love is a political weapon, The Silk Noose is a story of identity, inheritance, and insurrection. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Blood Pact"Some stories do not begin with a first meeting. They begin with silence-a silence that learns to echo across walls, bloodlines, and decades."I was nineteen when I first loved Magam - our landlord's daughter, the girl with ledgers in her hands and lightning behind her eyes. She was seventeen, already fluent in numbers, duty, and the loneliness of being watched. We shared textbooks first, then glances, then breath. And beneath a tree older than our fear, we made a pact - not with rings, but with blood - because we knew the world wouldn't bless us. So, we sanctified ourselves. The world told us we were too young. Too poor. Too tribal. Too loud. Too silent. But love doesn't wait for permission. It grows like vines through the cracks of impossible walls - in stolen afternoons, in folded letters, in wrists held too long beneath the table.The Satanic Verses of Love Series: Blood Pact doesn't belong to the powerful. It belongs to those who whispered "yes" in a world built to shout "no." To those who buried their feelings in notebooks. Who loved like ghosts - unacknowledged but unrelenting. To those whose truth was called betrayal, whose memories were rewritten as mistakes. Some names were erased. Some bodies disappeared. But the wall? The wall remembered. So I wrote. Even when I wasn't sure who would read it. Even when the silence grew teeth. Because some stories are not told to be believed. They are told so we don't forget how to feel. And now, the story is no longer just mine. It belongs to those who returned. To those who ran. To those who stayed long enough to break. And to those who bled just enough to survive. This is not a love story. It's a resurrection. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Cost of Fire is a lyrical, unflinching novel about two South Asian women who meet at an elite American university and find themselves caught in a collision of desire, identity, and inherited trauma.Aalia, from Kerala, walks into every room with a storm behind her. She's sharp-tongued, unapologetically political, and weary of being reduced to a token brown girl. Her past is filled with silences and burn scars-visible and otherwise. Meera, from Delhi, is all polish and promise, the kind of girl who was raised to smile and shine, but never too brightly. When they meet in a classroom debating caste and colonialism, they clash. Then click. Then combust.Told in alternating voices and poetic fragments, The Cost of Fire explores the tender, volatile intimacy between two women who were never meant to fall in love-not by their families, not by their histories, and certainly not by the systems that watch them from every angle. Between whispered prayers and late-night panels, group chat screenshots and anonymous threats, this is a love that is always political, always dangerous, and always half a heartbeat from shattering.Aalia knows how to fight. Meera knows how to perform. But neither of them knows how to stay. As their bond deepens, so do the stakes: caste prejudice, family expectation, religious tension, academic gatekeeping, and the ever-present threat of surveillance. At the same time, their relationship unfolds with moments of breathtaking softness-a stolen cake at midnight, hands almost touching in the snow, poetry written and never sent.But love, they discover, is not always soft. Sometimes, it's a fist. A fire. A truth too loud to be silenced. And when home becomes a question and belonging a battlefield, the biggest risk may not be loving each other-it may be believing they deserve to.Fierce, lyrical, and devastatingly intimate, The Cost of Fire is a portrait of what it means to exist at the intersection of too many identities in a world that prefers you in pieces. It's a story about the politics of visibility, the cost of courage, and the radical act of being seen-and loved-without apology. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - What happens when love becomes a crime not because of action, but because of perception What happens when family is both your anchor and your storm Blood Pact: A Love That Rewrote the Rules is a searing, poetic novel chronicling the emotional journey of Manfred and Maggie, two siblings caught in the unforgiving crosshairs of cultural shame, systemic silence, and the unrelenting weight of legacy.In a small West African village shaped by doctrine and decorum, their bond is mistaken for something taboo. One quiet morning, the knock comes. No questions asked. The law arrives. And everything breaks.What follows is a heartbreaking unraveling. Through prison cells and interrogation rooms, through poetry scribbled on detention reports and silence that stretches across years, Maggie and Manfred lose everything-except each other. And even that, eventually, becomes a question.Years later, Maggie returns-not as a victim, but as a mother, a wife, a warrior of truth. The compound they once shared erupts with memory, grief, and unspoken words that demand to be heard. The house becomes a living witness to all that was stolen-and all that remains.In a powerful climax, their family, their village, and even their former accusers gather-not for punishment, but for listening. And when the manuscript of The Blood Pact is finally read aloud, history itself bends. The story no longer hides. It sings.Through haunting prose, sacred stillness, and lyrical monologues, Blood Pact examines:The politics of shame and silence in African communitiesThe weaponization of tradition against joyThe role of art in survivalHow a home can both haunt and healThis is a novel where mango trees remember, kitchens bear witness, and fire becomes ritual. Where love is not sanitized or simplified, but allowed to be messy, raw, and real. Where characters are not heroes or villains-but people, choosing daily whether to stay, run, or rebuild.A story told in fragments but felt in full, Blood Pact is a literary reckoning.It asks not just what it means to be free, but whether peace is possible after survival.Perfect for readers of Chinelo Okparanta, Ocean Vuong, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Bryan Washington, this is a novel that dares to look directly into the eyes of taboo-and refuses to look away.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Blood Pact | Manfred Ayuk (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | Lory Cross Publications | EAN 9798232733766 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Cost of Fire | Lory Cross | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | Lory Cross Publications | EAN 9798233254666 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.