A story of Prohibited love, of terrorism and war, and the raw lives of a war-stricken land and its people. Tamina, a 19-year-old girl, survives a turbulent time, and meets a soldier named Jacob, from a land which she had never heard of. Despite being different from each other in all aspects, they find love amidst the war between her country and the budding terrorist organisation, the 'Sharias'. The story depicts her journey into adulthood, her land's unstable future in the hands of foreigners, of the terrorist organisation 'the Sharias' and her love that has been nipped by the cruelty of war and invasion by the foreigners as well as the 'Sharias'. A fiction written without a veil or extension, 'Under the merciless sun' is the raw depiction of those people and lands threatened by war, of foreign invasion and terrorism.

Under the merciless sun

It was a calm day, nothing special about it. The streets were never empty, people were carrying on with their lives. Tamina felt something heavy cemented on her chest. A feeling of an impending doom, a fear; it was there. When it comes to her job, she was meticulous and thorough. She had done her background study on her target and for her, it was not going to be an easy job to take down the Governor of California. 


“This man is a miracle, a survivor, a true patriot. What more do the people of California want? Served his nation till the age of thirty, entered the politics as a storm, with his father-in-law, the former Mayor being his greatest supporter. A family man, a political statement, that is what Col. Percy Barnes is.” 


Chapter 29