When The Peperos Align

Falling in love one Pepero stick at a time.

When K-pop rookie Choi Do-hyun (Hyde) of Cosmo goes up to his company’s rooftop to catch a break, he ends up catching feelings and vows to do all that he can to keep JADE’s Lee Hae-won (Wonwon) from crying.

So, now his to-do list looks something like this:
• Make a petition to save Golden Monkeys
• Buy Hae-won Peperos
• Ask Hae-won out on a date
• Panic about not knowing where to take her on a date

But being a K-pop idol doesn’t come without its challenges, especially if you’re a rookie trying to keep your young love a secret with a dating ban. So will the peperos align to bring together two K-pop idols?

Emma Cho’s When the Peperos Align is a story about fighting for your love with sprinkles of humour and struggles of being an idol. Perfect for the fans of Shooting Stars, The Idea of You and Imitation.

Love is sometimes written by stacking together Peperos.

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A former hitman who wants to reconnect with someone he failed to kill, a ghost who hopes his old flame can fall in love with his best friend, a frost giant, and a Minotaur adjusting to immortalization… and inevitably falling in love. What do all these stories have in common? They all follow couples who fall head over heels virtually. From Facetime to Zoom and everything in between, these lovers will discover that love doesn’t know what distance is. And you can find your soulmate, yes, even on a screen.

Ishqiya

A woman as intoxicating as the flower she’s named after.

A man on a journey to put his loved one to rest.

A life-changing train ride during the Bombay monsoons.

Indians believe size matters. We do everything big—from our bhaturas and jalebis, to our statues and stadiums. So why should our love be any different?

Ishqiya is a collection of eight bold and heartwarming stories about love, lust, and everything in between.

A Case For Mistletoe

Pranika Mehra is driving back home from New York for Christmas for the first time in years, carrying with her only a small suitcase and a huge secret. But when a terrible snowstorm halts her in her path, she is left at the mercy of the local mechanic to rescue her—who just so happens to be her ex-flame from years ago.

After such an unpleasant welcome back home, Pranika can only hope for the worst. But worse is yet to come.

The twelve days of Christmas may just bring her the joy and peace they promise—but not the way Pranika ever expected. Will she accept the solitude of her small town? Or will the city girl in her go back to her old ways?

The Novel Year

What happens when a planet of people are pushed into their homes indefinitely and without warning? What would happen to lives so abruptly turned upside down? How would people find solace and community and hope in this time?

Follow along with multiple first-person perspectives of people struggling through a pandemic, and you will find an honest reckoning of how people cope with the world when they are exposed to their darkest thoughts and basest impulses. You’ll find someone with mental illness, a teacher, a nurse, an activist, along with plenty of those who want to exploit the pandemic for their own benefit- and those who succumb to them. What will the mix of all these different strains result in, when they are all suffering under the brunt of this novel virus strain?

Famous In Love

Dating a K-pop idol is a sweet hell…

They are always away on tour, busy with their schedules, have no privacy and far too many ridiculous scandals. But they are also irresistible.

Take a peek into their lives as they manage insane fame, busy schedules, constant travel, zero personal space and, most importantly, love.

The Birdcage

For fans of the domestic drama The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller, and Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty, The Birdcage looks at reversed-gender roles, women breaking workplace barriers, and how secrets can hurt us.

One true love. Under fire from all sides. They’ll need each other to escape their birdcage.

Matt’s in awe of his wife.

Feisty, intelligent, capable, and now excelling in her first executive sales position. But Jillian’s job requires long hours, and Matt can’t help but suspect an affair. Jillian’s become more suited to her impressive boss than the hapless schoolteacher she’s outgrown.

Jillian’s marriage is slipping through her fingers.

Jill loves meeting the challenges of her new job, despite the unreasonable demands of her misogynistic boss. But she needs to find the balance between being a woman, wife, mother and hard-charging Vice President. Even a patient man like Matt won’t tolerate her neglect for long.

Set in corporate Canada, The Birdcage is a fast-paced novella that will inspire you, scare you a little, and feed your heart and mind. Perfect for fans of Marian Keyes and Elin Hilderbrand.