Beginnings
Author: Tikiri Herath
Category: Other
Published: 2017
Series: Red Heeled Rebels
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Read OnlineA young girl - A foreign land - An unusual beginning. Born of parents from two different countries and living in a third, all Asha wants is to belong. But she’s always the stranger, always the outsider. The day she decides to commit a crime to gain trust and friendship, her whole world collapses. Will this be the end of her life? Or an unthinkable beginning of a new one? This is a short story of innocence, audacity, and death. This is also the beginning of the adventures of the Red Heeled Rebels, a band of gutsy, sassy, young women who fight for their rights and travel the world to find freedom.What the Series About? The Red Heeled Rebels is a gripping, coming-of-age, adventure series with an international twist.They are the iron-willed young women who kick off their shackles to fight traditions that keep them down and travel the world to create the future they desire. If you liked the grittiness of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the pluckiness of The Hunger Games, you’ll love these kick-ass heroines who band together and fight their oppressors from child-bride brokers and human traffickers to their own families who try to subjugate them.Novel ONE: Disowned A lost orphan - A forced marriage - A fugitive on the run.Barely a teen, Asha loses her parents to a fiery car crash in Tanzania and is shipped off to a seaside community in tropical Goa to join her extended family. Soon after, she’s forced to flee an arranged marriage to the most vile man in the village, and looks for salvation in a new country. Is Asha walking into another trap?Coming 1 January 2018Novel TWO: AbductedA kidnapping - A forbidden place - An escape across borders.Asha and her best friend, Katy, arrive at Heathrow Airport on their long trek from Toronto, when Katy is kidnapped in broad daylight. Hell-bent on finding her, Asha dashes across the city, following a mysterious robed woman to a brothel, embarking on a journey that takes her from London to Luxembourg. Who kidnapped Katy and why?Coming 1 March 2018Novel THREE: ExiledA lost cousin - A death sentence - A fight for freedom.Asha arrives in Goa with her newfound friends, hoping to reunite with her missing cousin, only to make an alarming discovery. Asha soon learns that both her cousin and childhood best friend are in grave danger, with a death sentence hanging over one of them. What will Asha have to sacrifice for their freedom?Coming 1 May 2018