Contagious Love: Love Knows No Distancing by Aishvarya Murali

What if the army was posted outside our houses during the lockdown? The pandemic has hit and lockdown has been imposed. Twenty-three-year-old Delhi boy, Lieutenant Abhimanyu Singh, along with his army cronies, is posted in Chennai to impose the lockdown, far away from his dreams of an action-packed border posting. And when he meets 20-year-old Samyuktha Kumar as he stands guard outside her apartment, he’s drawn magnetically towards her. But suddenly, the members of the apartment building she lives in start getting infected and nobody knows where it came from. Set in an apartment complex, the story follows the two characters as they navigate anxiety-ridden neighbours, the new normal that the pandemic has brought about. The apartment building is its own world, its own microcosm, where fates are decided, love is built and destroyed. Full of twists and turns, Contagious Love is a love story that is entertaining, real but also fantastical and that will keep readers hooked till the climax—an ending that no one could have predicted.

Categories: Fiction