by Sheila Kumar
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you, Karthika V.K., for immediate recall of manuscript when accosted at a Bangalore book launch. I really liked it, you said, and I floated on air for the rest of the evening.
Thank you, Bidisha Ganguly, for being the point-person on aforementioned manuscript, as well as for the frequent handouts of much appreciated hope.
Thank you, Manasi Subramaniam, your enthusiasm was most infectious.
Thank you, Sohini Basak, my amazing editor, and sorry for confounding you with the ever-changing eye colour of my heroine! It was a pleasure working with you.
And then, thank you, Charlotte Lamb, queen among romance writers. Her books combine red-hot romance with substantial slice-of-life stories and she is the reason this diehard cynic has tried her hand at crafting a romance.
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About the Book
‘THE KISS CAUGHT FIRE, GROWING MORE
URGENT, MORE INTIMATE,
ITS TENOR CHANGING RAPIDLY AS THEIR
MOUTHS FUSED AND CLUNG.’
They make each other breathless. Their kisses are dangerous.
Their chemistry is simply off the charts.
Samar Pratap Singh and Nina Sabharwal can’t seem to keep their hands off each other. Yet, they don’t quite trust each other either: he thinks she’s eyeing bigger fish, she’s convinced he’s a heartbreaker. They have both decided that falling in love is simply not an option – no strings attached is how they roll. Only, the fact that they have to see each other at work every day makes situations stickier, and the more their lives become intertwined, the more they realize that love – a real and lasting love – is just a leap of faith away. But will they make that leap? Can they?
About the Author
Sheila Kumar is an independent writer and manuscript editor, as well as author of a collection of short stories titled Kith and Kin. On a more personal note, she has a dual personality: there is SK, the rock music-loving, tai chi-practising free spirit and there is Mrs Kumar, the colonel’s wife, all chiffon and pearls. Sheila Kumar has given up trying to integrate the two.
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First published in India in 2017 by Harlequin
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Copyright © Sheila Kumar 2017
P-ISBN: 978-93-5264-414-8
Epub Edition © May 2017 ISBN: 978-93-5264-415-5
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