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374 pages, Hardcover
First published February 23, 2021
In that halter-neck one-piece yellow swim suit. She was crouched beside me on the beach, our hair damp and our skin glowing.
Her head was lifted in a laugh, no bite or anger in her.
This was who she could've been if Ishaan Rai had been a different man.
"Don't make up stories about me, Ari." Wicked laughter in my ear. "You know I had a craving inside me that nothing could fulfill. Maybe it came from a bachpan of never having enough, but I wanted everything." . . .
This was the mother I'd loved, the mother I wanted to remember.
“Ten years was a long time for evidence to age and fade. For flesh to disappear. For everyone to forget that Nina Parvati Rai had been a living, breathing woman who'd loved music and cooking and had a mind like a computer.
In another life she could have been a professor.
In this life she'd been a rich man's wife.
Now she was just bones.”