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Zeenat Mahal’s Haveli

It’s the 1970’s in Jalalabad, an erstwhile princely state in Pakistan. Chandni is a self-proclaimed cynic and prefers to be called C. An orphan brought up by her domineering grandmother, she is rebellious, quick-witted and stunningly beautiful.

When Taimur, a.k.a. Alpha Male, enters the closed universe of the haveli, he is smitten; but he’ll never admit it. A hot chase and a passionate face-off follow.

The stakes get higher when the father who had so cruelly abandoned her at birth returns, and C’s dream of reuniting with him becomes a reality. But now she has to choose between her father and his hand-picked groom on the one side, and Alpha Male and her grandmother on the other.

Will C. choose practicality or love?

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Sundari Venkatraman’s Double Jeopardy

Sanya doesn’t just have trouble, she has double trouble. Twins Arth and Ansh Sharma are rich, sexy and sinfully handsome—what’s a girl to do?

Sanya last saw the twins when she was ten years old. Now, all grown up, she has come looking for gentle Arth, the twin she has loved ever since she can remember. But instead, she is confronted with fiery Ansh, who is hell-bent on seducing her. And what’s worse, she can’t seem to stop herself from responding to him.

As she chases Arth and is chased by Ansh, Sanya finds herself on a crazy roller coaster ride with no way of getting off. How will she deal with these two very different men in her life? Will she be able to convince one twin that she loves the other?

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Sumeetha Manikandan’s The Perfect Groom

Young, handsome Ashok is a software engineer working in the US—the ‘perfect groom’. Coerced into an arranged marriage with Ashok, Nithya discovers a long-held secret that turns her marriage into a farce.

When Nithya comes face to face with Vasu, her childhood friend, and old suitor before he ran away, she is forced to re-evaluate her life, and consider the reasons she has remained married to Ashok. And, as love blossoms between them, Vasu learns the secret that she has been hiding.

Standing on a crossroads, Nithya has to make a choice about her life. Will she stand guard over the lie of her perfect marriage, or will she have the courage to find her own truth?

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Sreejan Guha Niyogi’s A Love to Die For

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” Benjamin Franklin.

The entire class is shocked when beautiful and popular Nili falls for Anand, the college geek. He doesn’t hang out with friends, doesn’t party and doesn’t have a hope in hell of getting a girlfriend. But as fate would have it, they meet and with a little bit of help from his best friend Asha, become a couple.

But then a series of strange and threatening incidents begin to occur. Asha is pushed in front of a speeding metro train, Nili has a car accident and all three begin to receive death threats. It is up to Anand to discover the truth behind it all.

Against a backdrop of violence stirred up by state elections in Kolkata, Anand must fight to save the one he loves and the one who loves him. But as he battles for his love, he discovers a dark truth that shakes the very foundation of that love. Not all love stories have a happy ending—will this love story have one?

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Shweta Ganesh Kumar’s A Newlywed’s Adventures in Married Land


“Dependent!!?”

Mythili and Siddharth realize that being newlywed in a foreign country is very different from being passionately in love, long-distance.

She has just moved to the Philippines to be with the love of her life and new husband, Siddharth. After being a hard-as-nails reporter who covered crime stories of the goriest kind, Mythili is now just a ‘dependent’. On top of that, unemployment, encounters with expat-wives and culture shock leave her feeling like she has fallen down a rabbit hole. Will their love survive, or will she become just another unhappily married expatriate wife?

Will this real life Alice ever embrace her Wonderland?

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Sarita Varma’s Girl From Fatehpur

“I love you Rajan,” she had blurted out, hands clenched tightly at her sides.

“Sana, you are only a kid…you will soon forget all this. Besides, don’t you also love Shahrukh Khan?”

A decade has gone by and Sanjana, now a highflying professional in Mumbai, thought she was over her childhood crush on Rajan. Besides, Krish, her colleague and persistent suitor has proposed, and she needs a little time to think it through.

Travelling back for a family wedding to her hometown, Fatehpur, Sanjana finds herself face to face with Rajan, rekindling feelings she had long thought were dead. Krish’s unexpected arrival in Fatehpur results in a heated rivalry between the two men.

Will the ensuing tension and misunderstanding put an end to all her hopes of happiness? Her first love Rajan, or Krish, her handsome eligible colleague…who will win Sanjana’s impulsive heart?

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Sandhya Sayani’s The Journals of Geetanjali Rao

On the wings of a mid-life crisis, thirty-something Geetanjali Rao is back in her parent’s house in India. Armed with an astrologer’s prediction that ‘Jupiter is looking out for her’, she has to start a new life from scratch; new friends, new job, and a new love.

Throughout this journey, her journal faithfully captures the events that unfold and provides us with a ringside view of Geetanjali’s hopes, fears, discoveries and adventures that mirror so many of our own.

Heartwarmingly funny and occasionally sad, this is a poignant story of a woman who, despite the risk involved,  opens herself up to falling crazily in love.

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Roopa Menon’s Poetry Aur Pyar

College beauty Arundhati Basu would rather stick her head in the proverbial oven than host this year’s Founder’s Day event with tongue-tied nerd, Nikhil Menon. Desperate to woo Arundhati, the girl of his dreams, Nikhil turns to his cool granny with her bag of funky tricks and treats. Along with his shayarana andaz, it works like a charm. Arundhati and Nikhil hang out together and do each other a world of good. Pretentious Arundhati gets a thumping dose of reality, along with platefuls of panipuri and Rajnikant movies. Self-conscious Nikhil gets a much needed confidence boost and makeover.

The only kabab mein hadi is the brilliant but elusive campus poet D.G. Beckett that Arundhati thinks she is in love with. Will Arundhati choose Pyar or Poetry and how will Nikhil tell her is he both?

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R. S. Khambete’s Scars of Love

Seema had everything a girl could wish for; stunningly beautiful and financially secure, she has a great job and a handsome, successful, caring fiancé. But then she loses it all.

A freak accident leaves her horribly burnt and in terrible pain. Her hospital bills are mounting, her job is at stake and she will carry the scars to her grave. Worst of all, her fiancé seems to be losing interest in her.

Seema thinks she has nothing left to live for, but her doctor is determined to heal and get her back on her feet—whether she wants to or not.

With his faith as her bedrock, Seema learns to stand again and reclaim all that she had lost, including her true love.

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Parul Tyagi’s Love Will Find a Way

Prabhat is standing at a crossroads—torn between a childhood love and his wife, he has a decision to make. Nitya or Meeta?

Nitya and Prabhat were deeply in love, until fate intervened and ripped the two apart. Years later, married to Meeta and seemingly settled, Prabhat finds a written trail that suggests that Nitya is waiting for him. With his devoted wife beside him, he embarks on a journey to discover the truth of his tragic past, and to find the woman he has always loved. Time is running out for all three of them, though, and finding Nitya becomes imperative.

Three lives, three journeys, one destination. Is love about winning and losing, or about loving and letting go?