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A retelling of Beauty and the Beast using the myth of the yeti

Plot

What happens when you’re told that the life you were living so far was only a lie?

Nineteen-year-old Nilza Wangmo’s mother has gone missing, and there is a stranger at her door claiming that he has been sent to take her back to the place she truly belongs to.

Hoping to find her mother, she embarks on a journey into a world she knows nothing about. What awaits Nilza in the mystical lands hidden beyond invisible portals of the Himalayas will change her forever. Ruled by the queens, Béyul is a land both ancient and modern where oracles divine dangers and future, where a mythological creature walks its mountains and people travel only by air.  Béyul is under threat, and prince Wangzin is the only one who has the power to protect his land. Carrying an ancient legacy, born part-human, part-beast, he must awaken his power that lies dormant within. But he can only rise with the help of his chosen consort.

A retelling of Beauty and the Beast using ancient Himalayan myths and folklore surrounding the yeti, Béyul Hidden Lands is a spellbinding coming-of-age tale of love and adventure.

Béyul Hidden Lands - International Edition

Water seeks water. From water shall rise. Not one, but two entwined. Fates may unite. Yet not. If the heart not seeketh the one that is lost.                      – The prophecy

 

Plot

What happens when you’re told that the life you were living so far was only a lie?

Nineteen-year-old Nilza Wangmo’s mother has gone missing, and there is a stranger at her door claiming that he has been sent to take her back to the place she truly belongs to. Hoping to find her mother, she embarks on a journey into a world she knows nothing about. What awaits Nilza in the mystical lands hidden beyond invisible portals of the Himalayas will change her forever. Ruled by the queens, Béyul is a land both ancient and modern where oracles divine dangers and future, where a mythological creature walks its mountains and people travel only by air. Béyul is under threat, and prince Wangzin is the only one who has the power to protect his land. Carrying an ancient legacy, born part-human, part-beast, he must awaken his power that lies dormant within. But he can only rise with the help of his chosen consort.

  A retelling of Beauty and the Beast using ancient Himalayan myths and folklore surrounding the yeti, Béyul Hidden Lands is a spellbinding coming-of-age tale of love and adventure.

The Way We Are - Dark Tales from the Himalayas 3rd Revised Edition

This revised and locally published edition of The Way We Are contains thirteen stories and is available for sale at local bookstore in Darjeeling, Siliguri, Gangtok and all online bookstores.

Plot

An assasin seeks redemption in Monsters of Men. A Horoscope prediction goes horrifically wrong The Deal With the Horoscope. An unattached ageing teacher finds love in the twilight in For Eternity. Death robs his chance of telling his wife how much he appreciated her, in Final Farewell.  Sibling-rivalry has extreme repercussions, In Her Shadow. There is a price every unbeliever must pay in The Watcher. A little girl driven by hunger and poverty learns the hard way in Glutton.

An cantakerous vegetable seller’s somewhat bitter-sweet relationship with one of her customers turns into a blessing in disguise in The Night of the Storm. An unspoken love finds its way home even beyond death in Sacred Spaces.An abused child finally finds a away to escape in The Thirteenth Hour.

An obbsessive mother resorts to black magic to drive a wedge between her son and his lover in Unwished. A sister finds an uncanny way to cope with her brother’s death in Atonement.

Two people from two entirely different cultures struggle to stay together in The Reunion

 

Way we are - Dark tails form the Himalayas

The Way We Are - Dark Tales from the Himalayas

Twelve short and sometimes dark stories about people’s lives in small towns pocketed inconspiciously between the Himalayan peaks.

Plot

An assasin seeks redemption in Monsters of Men. A Horoscope prediction goes horrifically wrong The Deal With the Horoscope. An unattached ageing teacher finds love in the twilight in For Eternity. Death robs his chance of telling his wife how much he appreciated her, in Final Farewell.  Sibling-rivalry has extreme repercussions, In Her Shadow. There is a price every unbeliever must pay in The Watcher. A little girl driven by hunger and poverty learns the hard way in Glutton.

An cantakerous vegetable seller’s somewhat bitter-sweet relationship with one of her customers turns into a blessing in disguise in The Night of the Storm. An unspoken love finds its way home even beyond death in Sacred Spaces. An abused child finally finds a away to escape in The Thirteenth Hour.

An obbsessive mother resorts to black magic to drive a wedge between her son and his lover in Unwished. A sister finds an uncanny way to cope with her brother’s death in Atonement.