Book Release: WHERE WE COME FROM
WHERE WE COME FROM is out today. This is my second book with Inskpell Publishing. I’m so grateful to Melissa Keir and her team for making this book happen.
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Book blurb
Where We Come From is a gripping, emotional tale that deals with love in small towns and the harsh realities of an Indian farmers’ life. It raises the question of how where we come from affects the way we love others.
After having his future crushed by an ex, who betrayed him and walked away, Surya Atwal places an ad for a bride, a woman who shares his dreams for a home and family. This time he won’t let his heart make the decision. He’ll do it on his own terms without risking his legacy.
Ashtami Sial, a no nonsense Delhi girl with a sassy attitude, matches her bangles with her churidars. She’s not afraid of hard work but refuses to be simply a brood mare to a dour husband. She’s determined to build a family with love and will do anything to achieve it. Even herding her husband with the cattle, and building the village herself.
Life in Rori, a rural village in Haryana where the only neighbors are cattle and chickens, takes hard work and a little luck. Surya and Ashtami butt heads as the harsh realities of farming life threatens their home and livelihood. But the shadow of the woman who ripped out Surya’s heart looms over their marriage and might cost him more than he bargained for.
Can Surya risk his heart with someone new and leave his past behind? Or will he lose the one person who fell in love with him at first sight?
Book Trailer
I’m so happy with the release of another book. It’s taken me a while to write another book based in India. I started writing this as COVID swept New York. It was a kind of release to write this during that period when I was volunteering all day.
There’s so much to address with the plight of farmers in India and I’ve touched on a few of those issues, Debt, suicide, lack of water, lack of electricity, farming laws, stubble burning, access to healthcare and many more.
I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did writing it. We’re planning work on the audiobook. Until then, I hope you can pick this book in e format or print. Inkspell decided to do a print run of this book and I’m bouncing over it.
Delays in shipping means I still haven’t received my print copies. Once they’re here, I can’t wait to read a chapter and share it with you.
Swag
I’m give away a giant prize of
– The signed copy of WHERE WE COME FROM
-A Bandhni dupatta,
-Tote bag
The final gift bag of swag will go out after a lucky draw on November 30. I’ll draw out a winner in a raffle and send the gift box to one lucky winner!
All you have to do is share the book, trailer, images on social media and tag me. Or sign up to my newsletter!
Excerpt
Finally, I want to share an excerpt of this book.
“Ashtami, this is not your place.”
She waited. “So today’s been a waste of time?”
“I have to say yes.”
“Even though we have chemistry?”
“You can call it whatever … physics, chemistry, or biology. It doesn’t matter.”
“What’s wrong with me?”
“Nothing. You’re great as you are, but there are other things that have to be done here, and you’d fail in all of them.”
“Explain.”
“I was engaged to a woman exactly like you. City girl, pretty, headstrong, opinionated, had expensive taste. And I was fine with that. Except with time, she wanted me to give up farming, sell the land, and move to Delhi.”
Ashtami didn’t turn back, just kept looking straight ahead.
“We were engaged for a long time. And we dated before that for years. She had to know I couldn’t give up farming. Yet, she pushed. I said no. Everything turned messy after that.”
“I’m not like her. You have no right to judge us the same way. You just met me.”
“Yet, I’ve learned from my mistakes. This time I want someone realistic; someone who doesn’t have any romantic ideas of farm life. This is not the movies.”
“Nobody said it was.”
“I’m not going to go bankrupt again.”
“Who said anything about money?”
“You don’t understand. We planned a wedding. I bought everything, her gold, her clothes, and when she left, she took it all with her. I was buried under loans, still am, and I’m barely making a profit between the banks and the seed. I won’t do it again.”
“It’s just money; we can make that back.”
“No, it’s not. I nearly lost the land. This is my legacy, my gift to my children. I want them to have what is mine, provided I can keep it in the first place.
“You need someone to love you.”
“No. I need help. I need a partner. Love doesn’t figure anywhere in the equation.”
“No woman would settle for that,” Ashtami said.
I hope you enjoy my latest release. This is my last release for 2021 and this year couldn’t have been better with two major releases. With every book, I feel incredibly blessed and I thank Inkspell and their team for bringing this book into the world.
Happy reading.