BOLLYWOOD AND THE BEAST is here!

At last, it's Bollywood and the Beast release day! Hurrah!

This is really a book of my heart, one that I hope speaks to a wide audience.

Check out what Heroes and Heartbreakers and RT Book Reviews had to say about the story!


It’s not just the roses that have thorns.

American-born ingénue Rakhee “Rocky” Varma knows a career in Bollywood is no fairy tale, but that

truth hits home when her outspoken nature lands her in hot water with the media.

Banished to her leading man’s crumbling mansion on the outskirts of Delhi until things cool down, she is wholly unprepared to meet her costar’s reclusive brother, Taj Ali Khan. Taj, a former action hero until a stunt gone horribly wrong ended his career, wears a cape of scars and a crown of rudeness.

As his cynicism collides with her determination to stick it out in Bollywood no matter what, sparks fly. But little do they know that demons not of their making may turn their fiery, fragile connection to ash. And it will take more than sheer grit to face down the most frightening monsters of all—the ones inside themselves.


Get it at Samhain at its initial sale price of $3.15 or snag it at Amazon for $3.44.

Excerpt: Meet Taj from BOLLYWOOD AND THE BEAST!

My next Bollywood Confidential romance comes out on February 11, 2014, from Samhain Publishing. So, now is as good a time as any to introduce you all to my reluctant hero (okay, so he's a jackass), Taj Ali Khan.

Check out the excerpt below this lovely (and appropriate) picture of Kunal Kapoor, one of the real-life visual inspirations for this beastly Bolly boy.

Source: Verve magazine/Pinkvilla.Com

Lit From Within: Where Do South Asian Romance Writers Make a Name?

With a novella set to release in two months — my fourth India-set story, and the do-or-die of the Bollywood Confidential series before I move on to another subgenre — my mind is turned to marketing and promotion. I keep coming back to one question: Where does the South Asian romance writer go to find an audience, a support system, a foundation? (And, more importantly, a springboard to get our works Out There.) Do we look to our community, or to the romance community at large? Both are hard to break into, much less navigate.