The Debut Novel
A Love Story of One More Day
Two strangers meet at an adventure camp, entirely wrong for each other in every way that matters — except that his rescue dog has already chosen her.
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An emotional slow-burn Indian love story about family, a fictional rescue dog, and the ordinary days that become everything.
Maybe we were never meant to be perfect. Maybe we were just meant to choose each other, again and again, happily (n)ever after.
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The story
Viyaan counts everything. The kilometres he runs before sunrise. The minutes Goldie waits at the door. He has a system for everything.
Meera is quiet until it matters: soft-spoken, steady, forever answering his dares with the same two words — maybe next time. She is also, it turns out, the one who moves first. Every time.
A Gujarati banker from Bilimora and a Kannadiga trainer from Dharwad: two people who were never supposed to fit, but Goldie thought otherwise. Then life changes everything, and the future they had planned so carefully begins, quietly, to rewrite itself. What they build in its place is a love measured in the smallest, surest units there are: one more morning, one more chai, one more day.
Tender, funny, and deeply human.
Reader fit
happily (n)ever after is an emotional slow-burn Indian romance centred on Meera, a soft-spoken but quietly formidable woman who moves first when it matters; Viyaan, who always picks dare, never truth — what he calls the Viyaan system; and Goldie, the fictional rescued Indie dog who chooses them both. Tender, funny and threaded with heartbreak, it is a family love story for readers drawn to strong female characters, dogs who become family, and deeply felt romances that can make them laugh, ache and cry.
Reader notes: Emotional slow burn · Indian romance · Strong female protagonist · Family-centred · Fictional rescue dog · Deeply felt
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The dog remembered her before the man ever looked her way.
A spoiler-free bonus scene from happily (n)ever after — a quiet night in Rishikesh, a rescued street dog who keeps choosing the one woman nobody else is watching, and the quiet beginning of a love story neither of them expected.
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About
I always wanted to write. I had plans to write one in 2008, but early career building took priority, and then life had other plans. The book waited.
I write about ordinary people facing impossible choices, and the small acts through which love becomes a life. happily (n)ever after is my first novel.
Goldie — the novel's fictional rescued Indie — is the third protagonist, not a plot device. Readers who love dog-centred fiction will understand why he matters.
For reviewers and media
I welcome honest reviews — favourable, mixed or otherwise. If you review contemporary fiction and would like to consider happily (n)ever after, please get in touch. The ebook is available through Kindle Unlimited; any review is entirely optional.
I am also available for interviews, podcasts and written Q&A on a first novel eighteen years in the waiting, on writing a love story across two Indian cultures, and on independent publishing from India.
Next
A second novel is in progress — a courtroom thriller set in Mumbai, and a considerable departure from the first. News about it will appear here first.