Stella is different from the other teenager girls in her chawl. At sixteen, while other girls are too busy whiling away the time, she has a dream—a dream of making it big in life. Her mother, Sheila, a maid-servant, wholeheartedly supports her and remains her backbone.
Isn’t it the way with all common people; each day facing new problems in even more perplexed situations. Out of nowhere, a new trouble brews 
up! An attempt by some of the hooligans in the chawl to 
outrage Stella’s modesty leaves Sheila distressed. She is forced 
to shift to the servant quarters of Mr. Arya, in whose house Stella cooks to make a living. Stella, 
now all grown to be a beautiful young woman, unaware of life’s sudden unfolding, falls prey to circumstances unavoidable! She gets romantically attached to Mr. Arya’s son, Himanshu who craftily makes her believe that he will marry her one day. Destiny has something else in store for her. Soon to her horror she discovers that she is pregnant and that alarms her to no end. She then decides to commit suicide.
Will Stella be able to come out of the distress that surrounds her? Read more to find out…

Neelam Saxena Chandra, an author of thirty-six books, is a record holder with the Limca Book of Records for being the author having the highest number of publications in a year in English and Hindi (2015). She works as Joint Secretary (U.P.S.C.). She has won an award in a poetry contest by American Embassy, Premchand award by Ministry of Railways, Rabindranath   Tagore International Poetry award, Freedom award by Radio City for her lyrics. She was listed 
in the Forbes list as one of the most popular seventy-eight authors in the country in 2014. She can be contacted at neelamsaxena27@hotmail.com.

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Contents

Part – I

1. Stella — 9

2. Sheila — 14

3. Love Story Goes Sour — 20

4. A Voyage — 25

5. A New Life — 30

6. A Harrowing Experience — 35

7. A New Beginning — 40

8. Love is in the Air — 46

9. Upheavals in Love — 51

10. Negotiating the Way — 56

11. Resilience — 61

12. The Counsellor — 66

13. Sheila’s Rigid Refusal — 71

14. Good News Finally! — 77

Part – II

15. A New Phase — 85

16. The Tom-and-Jerry Chase — 90

17. Elections — 95

18. Prof. Soumik Sen — 100

19. The Contests — 105

20. The Attempts to Love — 111

21. Himanshu — 116

22. Stella’s Stalemate — 121

23. Repentance — 126

24. Love Flowers — 131

25. A Chance Encounter — 136

26. A Twist in Tale — 141

27. Life-changing Alterations — 146

28. Riya — 151

29. The Beans are Spilt — 156

30. Threads of Relationships — 161

Epilogue — 167

Neelam Saxena Chandra, an author of thirty-six books, is a record holder with the Limca Book of Records for being the author having the highest number of publications in a year in English and Hindi (2015). She works as Joint Secretary (U.P.S.C.). She has won an award in a poetry contest by American Embassy, Premchand award by Ministry of Railways, Rabindranath   Tagore International Poetry award, Freedom award by Radio City for her lyrics. She was listed 
in the Forbes list as one of the most popular seventy-eight authors in the country in 2014. She can be contacted at neelamsaxena27@hotmail.com.