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I’m so glad you stopped by. I write Contemporary Romance Fiction that’s the perfect balance between a romantic escape and uplifting tales that don’t insult your feminist values. If you like complex stories about relatable, realistic characters healing from past wounds as they define and achieve their own personal happily ever afters, I hope you enjoy mine!
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The Feminist's UNLIKELY Fiancé
Rainy Saraladevi’s mother arrives with a groom already picked out. Her stepbrother has a better — and far more inconvenient — idea.
When her mother arrives in Port Camosun for an extended visit — trailing her new husband, a hopeful suitor, and the stepbrother who made their parents’ wedding miserable — Rainy’s carefully built life as a diversity and inclusion counsellor collapses into chaos. Her mother has a husband picked out for her. Rainy has other plans. So when Kiran Kamdar, her new stepfather’s brilliant, infuriating son, offers her an out, she takes it: a fake engagement, just long enough to survive the visit.
There’s just one problem. Kiran isn’t supposed to be the appealing one.
He’s a leading biotech researcher with no time for love and even less patience for pretending — until forced proximity, family dinners, and a friend group that refuses to mind its own business start making the fake part feel dangerously optional. They’ve never shared a childhood, a home, or a single day of actually liking each other. Now they can’t stop.
But Kiran’s whole life is built on being brilliant somewhere else, and Rainy’s is built on staying exactly here. Loving each other might mean losing everything they were each so good at building alone.
For fans of Sonali Dev, Sara Desai, and Nisha Sharma — a fake-engagement romance where family, ambition, and desire all show up uninvited.
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Secrets at the Aviary Inn
She arrives in York with a boyfriend, a backpack, and a photograph her mother never explained.
Within twenty-four hours, the boyfriend’s gone — and Sophie Groenveld is alone in a foreign country with no money, no passport, and nowhere to turn. What saves her is a stranger’s kindness, a job offer with no questions asked, and an inn unlike anything she’s ever seen.
The Aviary Inn is beautiful and faded, presided over by the quietly enigmatic Ava Roxtoby — a woman who tends her birds with tender devotion, keeps the world at a careful distance, and carries her grief the way old houses carry their history: silently, in the walls. Sophie, who’s always been drawn to other people’s stories, cannot leave her alone.
As the summer unfolds, Sophie follows a thread of clues through the cobbled streets of York, the quiet of the Lake District, and the long-buried history of wartime London — slowly realising that the connection between herself, Ava, and that unexplained photograph runs far deeper than coincidence.
For readers of Kate Morton and Susanna Kearsley — a warm, immersive story about the secrets families keep across generations, and what it costs to finally tell the truth.
Some secrets protect us. Some imprison us. And some, when finally spoken, set two people free.
“Satisfyingly predictable in the best possible way.” — NetGalley reviewer ★★★★★
“Addictive… engaging prose.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Beautifully written with a gentle, reflective tone… emotional depth and heartfelt moments“ — B&N reviewer
A CIBA Somerset Prize Finalist & Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist 2025 — from the award-winning author of The Art of Enchantment