By Chris Pechstedt
At nine in the morning Sunday the sun had already been baking the white cliffs of Taiwan's northeast coast for hours. Standing at the edge of a 15m precipice overlooking Longdong's roiling sea, Lin Siang (林祥) and Huang Jhih Ming (黃志銘) clipped themselves onto single black cords. Before they turned to jump, I wanted to know whether they were scared.

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Shobaa De's newest offering teaches modern Indian women how to cope with the conflicting desires, both emotional and sexual, that arise in the country's rapidly changing society
The woman dubbed India's Jackie Collins for pioneering the genre of "bonkbuster" novels in the sexually puritanical nation has now written a how-to manual for successful marriage.

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