" Zombie travelogue comedy in the tropics. Debauched expats from hell get more than they bargained for when it turns out their tiny island paradise is ground zero for a zombie apocalypse. "

When you’re mean, mad, and not in the mood for love... But he loves you anyway. Burned twice, Boracay magazine editor Alana Quezon is sick and tired of the same old, heartbreaking love. She figures, Why not be the reckless one for a change? If they can sleep around, so can she. If they can lie, she can do it better. If love is a game, then she’ll learn to play around. Besides, on a sizzling island like Boracay, where there’s no shortage of hot men, what single girl wouldn’t be tempted? For as long as they understand the rules: no talk of love, no exclusivity, and no strings attached. But then comes a gamechanger. One guy refuses to play by her rules. She declares she’ll be no man’s girlfriend, and he romances her with a bunch of love letters. She rejects him repeatedly, but he keeps showing up to save her. She hurts him, but he loves her anyway. As temperatures rise towards the end of Boracay’s amihan season, will he succeed in finally melting her heart? Or is Alana right — will he be her biggest heartbreak yet?

Manila hotelier Steve Conway returns to Vietnam to look for an old wartime friend and falls in love with a local girl, Kim Anh. But the relationship is threatened by cross-cultural differences, family resistance, and a jealous, dangerous ex suitor. Conway persuades his employers to allow him to look at expanding their operation in Saigon. He realizes he has found the love of his life and the relationship blossoms but behind the scenes he is unaware that moves are taking place to bring about its destruction. He also does not realize he is being stalked by a crazed ex-Marine intent on killing him. What started out as a short holiday becomes a turning point in Steve Conway’s life leading to a roller coaster ride of love, hate, murder and ultimate tragedy.

The word love has been defined and confined by society to a certain spectrum, basically involving man and woman. This book dares society to look outside the spectrum at love just as it is – unconditional. No caste, creed, gender, religion or beliefs determining the same. As one would love a pet regardless of the gender, as one would love a newborn regardless, so does this book take the reader on a relationship considered taboo especially in Asian countries. Post reading this book, readers are expected to have an open mind to relationships and not succumb to society’s bottle necked version of who should love whom or what sanctions a relationship. This book opens the dimension to another world where matter of the heart is concerned, taking the most commonly used word ‘love’ to the next level – a level where beliefs will crumble and minds will explode. This book will challenge you to step out of your cocoon, your garment and labels slapped on you by society from the time you were born and for many, even after they have gone to their graves. Prepare to be authentic to yourself. Not for the society or community but for yourself.

Intrigue, Murder, Deception n Romance Steve Conway returns to Bangkok to run his company s local operation and saves the life of a beautiful Thai girl during a shoot out on arrival at Bangkok airport. A romance develops but Conway is unaware her family is marked for death by a Romanian drug lord because of a crackdown by her father, a high-ranking policeman. Conway is drawn further into this dangerous web of intrigue when the drug lord becomes aware of his association with this family. He befriends a young Thai undercover cop who saves his life and tells him of a plot to assassinate the father at an award ceremony to be attended by the king of Thailand. Suddenly a pleasant sojourn in the Thai capital turns deadly as in true Conway style he once again confronts murderous foes, exotic women intent on his seduction including the outrageously flamboyant and sexy Lily Li, Thai female boxers and British skinheads looking for trouble, in this tale of murder, deception, intrigue and romance set in Bangkok, Thailand s exotic island of Koh Samet and Manila.

When Vietnam vet Steve Conway, takes a position as hotel manager in Manila to seek peace and overcome a personal tragedy instead of tranquility, he finds a country in throes of revolution. The Marcos regime is tottering and “People Power” is about to show the world that love of country transcends all. In this highly charged atmosphere he finds the operation he is working for is not what it seems. Behind the scenes are secret deals involving drugs, corruption and murder. It is a world of greed, deception and depravity in which he encounters degenerate expats, crooked cops, murderous locals and exotic women. Despite their hardship, poverty and oppression, the flame of democracy still burns brightly in the heart of the Filipino people and they are determined to throw off the yoke of the dictator and regain their freedom.

Death, Debauchery and Deception When the Australian based Down Under Corporation decides to expand its operation in Asia to Shanghai, it sends their ace trouble shooter Steve Conway to seek out a site. On arrival in Shanghai Conway meets the beautiful Selina Chan, who unknown to Conway is the right hand of Jao Min who controls the Shanghai underworld. Jao is being challenged for supremacy by another gangster Du Jing Ling who is determined to take over whatever the cost in human life…one of those lives being that of Steve Conway who finds himself caught in the middle of a savage gang war when Du believes he is aligned with Jao. Adding to his woes are several attempts on his life one of which, is from a business colleague of Selina and a deadly seduction from the sexy Wendy Han. Wild exotic women, Batman character impersonators, murderous locals and a host of other intriguing characters make up this tale ranging across Vietnam, the Philippines, Australia and China culminating in Conway facing his greatest danger yet.

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction Josephine escapes poverty by coming to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, an idealistic only son with literary aspirations. Josephine, with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of war growing ever louder, Rashid bows to family and social pressure, and sends her back home with her baby son, José. Brought up struggling with his dual identity, José clings to the hope of returning to his father's country when he is eighteen. He is ill-prepared to plunge headfirst into a world where the fear of tyrants and dictators is nothing compared to the fear of 'what will people say'. And with a Filipino face, a Kuwaiti passport, an Arab surname and a Christian first name, will his father's country welcome him? The Bamboo Stalk takes an unflinching look at the lives of foreign workers in Arab countries and confronts the universal problems of identity, race and religion.