Crossing the Mirage
Subtitle: Passing through Youth
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Project Gutenberg Self-publishing Press http://self.gutenberg.org/eBooks/WPLBN0002827431-Crossing-the-Mirage---Passing-Through-Youth-by-Murthy--B-S-.aspx?
Published: 2005
Place of publication: India
Format: E-book
Number of pages: 141
Copyright date: 2005
First sentence: Youth is the mirror that tends us to the reality of our looks. The reflections of our visages that insensibly get implanted in our subconscious lend shape to our psyche to define the course of our life.
Description: If passing through youth was like crossing the mirage of life for Chandra and Nithya, it proved to be chasing the mirage of love for Sathya and Prema though for plain Vasavi, Chandra's pitiable sibling, it was the end of the road.
As life brings Chandra, who suffers from an inferiority complex for his perceived ugliness, and Nithya, who was bogged down being jilted by Vasu, together, they script their fate of fulfillment.
And as poetic justice would have it, Sathya, who caused Prema's heartburn, himself was led down the garden path by Kala, doing a Sathya on Sathya.
Just not that, life has in store just deserts for Vasu owing to Nithya's retribution as he tries to stalk her. 
Besides, after many a fictional twist and turn, the way the coming of age novel ends, challenges the perception that fact is stranger than fiction.
Table of contents: title: 1. Shackles on Psyche; title: 2. End of the Tether; title: 3. Burden of Freedom; title: 4. Onto the Turf; title: 5. Respite by Death; title: 6. Lessons of Life; title: 7. Naivety of Love; title: 8. Dilemma of Disclosure; title: 9. Perils of Youth; title: 10. Absurd Proposal; title: 11. Crossing the Mirage; title: 12. Setting the Pace; title: 13. Oasis of Bliss; title: 14. Busy bees in Honeycomb; title: 15. Twist in the Tale; title: 16. Love in the Bind; title: 17. Turn for the Worse; title: 18. Shadows to the Fore; title: 19. Spurring to Err; title: 20. Tempting the Fate; title: 21. Stooping to Conquer; title: 22. Fouling the Soul; title: 23. Poetic Justice; title: 24. Agony of Penitence; title: 25. Embrace of Love; title: 26. Life of a Kind; title: 27. Just deserts?