The Akashic Plane: Where the Ethereal Meets the Real

Topper grades, drop dead Greek God looks, bags of money — Akash Joshi, who had missed all these boats, had ended up as the quintessential average of averages. His harrowing articleship at the accounting firm and less-than-great performance at college become the final straws that leave him contemplating the ultimate escape of suicide.
Akash does find his escape. Not quite in death, though... But in a parallel universe hidden in plain sight. A near-death experience bizarrely bestows upon him the yogic power of an awakened Kundalini, letting him transcend the material dimension into a higher order of the universe.
Right after, a murder at the accounting firm lands Akash amidst a dangerous puzzle. Poking around the firm's suspicious clients drags him deeper into a web of nefarious characters and their sinister underground links. But he is determined to solve his way out of this maze, hoping to finally become someone his parents would be proud of. And with his new superpower, he might be the only one to be called upon to crack it.
Little does Akash realize that this adventure can cost him his career and life, both already hanging by a fine thread! With the stakes so high, will he be able to rise above all the challenges before the noose tightens? Or will his superpower abandon him when he needs it the most?

SHWETA PATEL has given most of her life and career to fighting fraud and financial crime in banks. May be that was an overhang of her childhood which was spent in reading her grandfather's vast collection of financial crime, espionage and other crime thrillers.
Her only claim to fame as far as writing goes though is the humour column she used to write for a college magazine. (Thankfully, that was from a time when every forgettable written word didn't leave an online footprint forever.) Before that, she also wrote some poems in school, that clearly didn't go on to become a national treasure either.
She was born and raised in a leafy suburb of South-Western Mumbai, but given her reclusive tendencies, she currently lives and writes in her penthouse in Pune, where she resides with her husband and a very naughty ginger tabby.