Saloni Khatri wants unconditional happiness- the kind that comes from discovering inner peace and is not associated with worldly pursuits. Here, she takes readers along on her search with her debut poetry collection, "Sum of My Sins."

Khatri strives for love, awareness, mindfulness, and oneness. She conveys her search through poems focused on inner conflicts-such as how the pursuit for love can overlap with the bondage of negative relationships-and how one can surmount this by looking inwards. Each poem marks a step down the path of a remarkable journey.

It's a walk back to God, a...