Clara Marples is one for many talents. She can juggle, albeit, rather terribly. She prides herself on making a very remarkable cup of tea that may or may not have marvelous magical properties and she is rather well suited and tremendously qualified at delving into the realms of the mind to organize the disorder of their psyche which is what she undergoes in many sessions with her clients due to her authorized craft as a psychiatrist. And lastly; but not least as you should not think absentmindedly of this gift, she can have a chat with the dead. As an unauthorized consultant for the British Intelligence as well as local authorities and the Scottish Yard, she has solved many a crime with or without their help across the United Kingdom have it be from murder, child abduction, fraudulent activity and drug trafficking, right down to a lost kitten in the tree. However, with her newest case she sets out upon alone with only her wits, resources and talents afforded to her and an unlikely and naturally impossible companion due to the sudden appearance of a brutally murdered body. Though well and truly accustomed to finding a stranger's body grisly mangled in Wistman's wood, however she was not prepared to discover one that has been found in her very own bathtub. Especially when that body once belonged to the loveliest love of her life: her fiancé.

"No amount of coffee could keep me awake like you do." Jake is the hockey player with the hot girlfriend. Katie is the girl with a name no one remembers. Jake is used to getting what he wants. Katie is used to getting coffee for her hungover mother. Until one night, one chance meeting between two strangers changes everything. No words, no stories to share, and above all, no names. Just two people who don't know each other, a hot string of kisses in bathroom, and a mutual goodbye. Except there's one problem: Katie felt something.

In Tokyo, where the System siphons thought, emotions & memories, a literature student meets a strange psychic girl and they embark on an escape from mindless agents, dream worlds and reality itself, in a soul-searching journey for love, for identity and what it means to be human. But all that remains is a peculiar coffee shop order. The novel examines the human condition, perception, socio-political systems, capitalism and consumer culture, incorporating paranoiac conspiracy theories, surreal cosmic visions, circular symbolism and shifting parallel worlds, with profound discussions of coffee, art, literature and music. [Dystopia, Magical Realism, Philosophy, Literary] #1 Sci-Fi, Spiritual; #Wattys2014 Award Winner; Featured on Wattpad, IndieReader, @DIGonUSA "Struck me to the very core of my being." "Very interesting concept of reality... Thought provoking.." "I have been turned to a whole new way of thinking because of you." "Like a seven course meal full of spice and illumination... One does not listen to a classical piece to get to its ending. No. It is the ride, the moment by moment...a genuine Masamune among stories." "It was both personable and philosophical. A rare breed of good story and thought provoking ideas... A virtual standing ovation would not be enough to encapsulate the absolute awe I have of you." "It's not a regular thing to find a piece of work that oozes sophistication and embodies literature and art." "The world Takatsu has created opens to the deeper awareness of another, the draw of another." - Mary L Tabor, Wattpad author, essayist, professor "Offers acute, almost painful observations of the minutiae of life, if life took place in a Murakami snow-globe." - IndieReader Insiders "Vapoury style that seems to hover off world at times...haunting and strange (which is good)...You're on to something different, striking." - B.W. Powe, York University English Professor, award-winning author, poet, philosopher http://EspressoLove.tk