Dear all,
Here goes my Debut novel's Book Cover-

Hi All,
Will be launching  the cover of my debut novel- The Pink Scarecrow on 8th December here. Please share your views.
Thanks.
Ankita

The next to arrive in the New Year's Party was our Bollywood actor, our Fauji kid, Miss Selina Stately, with her parents. Her father Colonel V K Stately had been in the Army for more than two decades, and was now retired and settled in Bengdubi. He and Mrs Stately came to attend all station parties. At times, when Selina was in town, she also accompanied her parents. I’ve seen her growing up and I find her like any other Fauji’s kid, but the entire Army Station goes berserk whenever Selina comes to the parties. Today there was the Air Force crowd too. As they don’t have their own separate institute, so the New Year Eve’s are celebrated jointly at one place -- that is our BSOI(BENGDUBI SERVICE OFFICER'S INSTITUTE).

Selina was wearing a little black dress that started from her big bosom and ended much above her thighs. Seeing her dress I remembered a quote I had once seen displayed on a board in one of the senior officer’s office. It said “Your visit should be short enough to arouse curiosity and long enough to cover vital points.” Amusingly, I don’t know why but, I found Selina’s dress speaking the same quote. Her feet were covered in high pointed heels closed black leather shoes raised up to her knees. The shoes had innumerable leather laces tied in criss-cross fashion. She held a smart shining black metal clutch in her right hand. Her artificially auburn coloured hair was open but closely controlled. Not a single strand of her hair was out of place. Her blue-grey eyes were lined with dark kohl, bluish eye liner and mascara, her prominent cheek bones wore a shiny bronze shade and she wore a deep layer of brownish lipstick. Fair people can really look extremely hot in shades of browns…no doubt in that.  Her neck was bare and she had no earrings in her ears.

I could witness mass hysteria as the Army and Air Force bachelor officers, as well as teen sons’ of officers, were going nuts looking at the Bollywood hottie. While the Army guys held their horses, the Air Force guys were readying themselves to take off…beginning to derive utmost pleasure by the mere star presence in the hall. Maybe she was their fantasy girl and getting to see one’s fantasy woman could be a very exciting experience for most men. Young girls and kids went running to Selina seeking her autograph. The lady officers weren’t bothered. Selina, for them, wasn’t such a big thing; still they kept admiring her beauty from a distance.

Conclusion

To  find out if at all  the lady in question thought this gentleman officer has committed an offence during the course of the New year's Party at Bengdubi Military Station or does she make him feel punished for his permanent offence if there was any....... you will have to wait and watch for the book called 'The Pink Scarecrow' .

blurb part 3......continued from the  second last blurb.......His mind decoded this as a feeling of passionate expression of man woman bodily magnetism which was consuming him; he presumes that maybe the lady never noticed his awkward behaviour, maybe she was never offended, maybe she had pardoned his misdeed, or probably she had fallen for his still-so-handsome-at-42-looks...

Blocking all the distracting judgemental thoughts, he simply tries to seduce his own body into submission with that of hers.

The clock strikes 12:00....midnight…he holds his  breath under his command just to wholly absorb her unruffled breath next to his ears....now craving to be rewarded......he hears her whispering something.  As her words descend his ears, he freezes in his track.

Is dance a vertical expression of some hidden horizontal desire ?

The New Year's eve party in the Bengdubi Service officer's Institute at the Bengdubi Army Cantonment was always a big hit among both the Air Force and the Army people.....every one would be seen vigorously dancing with gorgeous ladies ( some with their own wives some with others') .

Is dance a vertical expression of some hidden horizontal desire ?

The New Year's eve party in the Bengdubi Service officer's Institute at the Bengdubi Army Cantonment was always a big hit among both the Air Force and the Army people.....every one would be seen vigorously dancing with gorgeous ladies ( some with their own wives some with others') .

Blurb-Continued from the previous para..........The trivial passion would have turned to somewhat more serious but for some incident, which he saw as a deliberate prick to his ego that led him to end the relationship abruptly -- though not before blasting the Pink Scarecrow, into a million pieces........

Mopping his brow and jerking his head in an attempt to get rid of the thoughts of that insignificant passion, he prepares to act on his plan to seek pardon from the ‘lady of the evening’ whom he considers he has offended much. He is shocked when he is chosen by the lady as her dance partner, much to the chagrin of his Commanding Officer, Colonel Sameer Chauhan, and so many other fine-looking Army and Air Force officers both parallel and senior to him who were present there.

 Oscillating between visible and invisible infatuations on the dance floor while dancing in close proximity with the dazzling lady, he could smell her perfume and he felt his body heating up......to be continued.........

The sweat on his brow and the sudden racing of his heartbeat had nothing to do with the presence of a Bollywood Heroine and a Beauty Queen (Winner of Mrs India Pageant) in the Military Station at the New Year’s Eve Party. The fear of acting out of line by committing the misdemeanour of ogling at the lady guest, an act in clear contravention of established military courtesies...which could possibly make him lose many social accolades well earned during his military career spanning several years.

Apology was the only option and Lieutenant Colonel Vishesh, a strategist, plans his next move.

As he plans the strategy for his apology, he wonders why he had resorted to such an act when he had had his fill as a bachelor years ago. His question takes him to enter a mental burrow where he sees one of the insignificant passions, that of with Pink Scarecrow
                                                                                                                       .................to be continued...........