Varun Gwalani

Varun Gwalani

Varun Gwalani is the author of three novels and multiple short story series, most of which will be featured on Saga! His work spans multiple genres and styles, sometimes in the same work itself, and focuses on mental health activism and awareness, particularly for Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. He currently works as a teacher, enjoys reading fiction and gaming, and hates talking about himself in third person.

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    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?

     

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    The Only Way Out Is Death

    From author Varun Gwalani comes a new escape room murder mystery perfect for fans of Korean survival drama Squid Game and Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. The Only Way Out Is Death is a fast-paced suspense novel set in an empty hotel, where twelve people have to kill to survive.

    Twelve powerful people are kidnapped and imprisoned in an empty hotel.

    Each of them have three choices:

    Live out the rest of their days peacefully in the hotel,

    Die by suicide so the rest of their companions can go free,

    Or murder one of their companions so they alone can go free.

    The Only Way Out is Death follows the story of these twelve people from the perspective of a young lawyer, Kiriaki, told as the events unfold. She has to forge uneasy alliances, navigate complex relationships and feuds, and, above all, try to stay alive. Meanwhile, the mastermind of this death game is lurking just out of view, watching them closely, making sure they are primed for murder.

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    Who Saves The Hero?

    The love of Sean’s life is coming back to town, and he’s terrified.

    Samantha broke his heart and left him an anxiety-riddled mess, but now that she’s back, will they get back together?

    Or will Sean heed the warnings of his best friend, Angelica, who claims that Samantha is not who she seems?

    What Sean doesn’t know is, something darker and more vicious awaits him. Will he be able to survive it?