What goes into making a delicious, memorable dish? The same things that go into making an un-put-downable collection of short stories: intriguing ingredients, exotic flavours, perfect timing, and some secret sauces made of romance, murder, a message in a bottle, witchcraft, a cruise liner. Put together by an unlikely bunch of chefs: Zombies, Maharajas and Lovers.

Page Turner Awards Finalist Rajan Nair has dug deep into his cauldron of fantastic ideas, vivid storylines, and delectable plots, to create these 12 stories. All fiction, of course, but somehow these are stuff myths and legends are made of, and handed down generation to generation.