A senior graphic designer at decor brand Jharokha, Kavya Mehra has battled burnout, sky-high rent and a commute from hell for three-and-a half years to earn her place in Mumbai. Life is finally beginning to look up.
Then Neil Desai walks in. Her new intern. Her insufferable, handsome, privileged, man-child of an intern, with a cushy life built on his father's money and influence. And Neil finds out something about Kavya that she desperately needs him to keep to himself. It's a tiny white lie, sure, but in a city where thousands are waiting to grab her job, even the smallest slip-up can unravel everything.
When teamwork and late-night brainstorming sessions throw them together, their sharp-tongued fights start to feel suspiciously like foreplay, and they find themselves navigating professional minefields, a rapidly brewing office scandal and an attraction that was never part of the job description.
A delightful pick for readers who love the workplace tension of The Hating Game and the bite of a great desi rom-com.
Radhika Agrawal is a lifestyle journalist and the author of the bestselling romance novel Red Flags and Rishtas. A sucker for all things filmy, she sees the world in meet-cutes and dream sequences. Originally from Delhi, she now lives in Thailand with her husband and their over-pampered dog, who hates competing with fictional characters for her attention.Radhika can be reached on Instagram at @radhika.yellow or through her website: www.byradhikaagrawal.com