- A Hidden Past - A Cache of Antique Jewels - Dev Tagore: surfer, savant linguist, is a mystery even to himself.
Awarded 5 stars by Pacific Reviews; Midwest Book Reviews says, "A delicious recipe for engagement and involvement. Simply delightful, making it a top recommendation."
Dev is hiding in plain sight, he made up his name, not just to evade those who seek him, but because he has no idea who he is. He is surfing and translating documents for a friend up in Little India, while sitting on cache worth millions in ancient jewels. A Latina artist has fallen hard for him, but her rockabilly sister doesn't like it one bit; and she's not the only one. Homeland Security is on his tail suspecting him of plotting to blow up the Queen Mary. But Dev has befriended the sister's young son Ray, who thinks Dev is special--different--even saintly. When Ray is kidnapped and finds himself adrift in the middle of the Pacific, the boy must use all his wits to survive. Meanwhile in the high Himalayas, a mushroom-eating goddess is wreaking havoc on those a world away.
"Amnesia. Kidnapping. The illusions of food, cross-cultural encounters, possibly holy men and holy hell. Love explored as a malady and as a promise. It's ficiton-but its delicious fiction." Diana Donovan, Sr. Editor, California Bookwatch. "Like a full-course mean, this novel ahs a bit of everything. In the end the novel is about love, acceptance - and food"! Pacific Book Review
This romantic and mysterious journey takes the reader though Southern California beach towns, the Little India section of Los Angeles, and even ventures up the slopes of the Himalayas. And on this trek the reader is transported by food, humor, love and (of course), questions about the meaning of life.
