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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalHi, there I’m Aarti V Raman, a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romantic suspense with loveable heart and dizzy heat. Starring hot, possessive, and decent heroes and strong, stubborn, and independent women, these romances are set in a lush world full of passionate danger and emotional peril. 'The Worst Daughter Ever', my desi chick lit novel is an Amazon Top 10 bestseller, among others. It has also been optioned for a screen adaptation. My bestselling Millionaire Foes series is part of the Writers on the Moon Project, on a time capsule to go to the actual moon. I'm also a TEDx spRead More...
Hi, there I’m Aarti V Raman, a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romantic suspense with loveable heart and dizzy heat. Starring hot, possessive, and decent heroes and strong, stubborn, and independent women, these romances are set in a lush world full of passionate danger and emotional peril.
'The Worst Daughter Ever', my desi chick lit novel is an Amazon Top 10 bestseller, among others. It has also been optioned for a screen adaptation. My bestselling Millionaire Foes series is part of the Writers on the Moon Project, on a time capsule to go to the actual moon. I'm also a TEDx speaker.
I’m an amateur poet, aspiring screenwriter, and young adult urban fantasy enthusiast.
I’m also known as Writer Gal. I live with my large and largely loveable extended family in a version of my three favorite words – Happy Ever After.
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Simon Archer is made by the tragedies and scandal he endured as a child.
Ambitious. Secretive. Vengeful.
The billionaire stockbroker swore to never marry—until the threat of a PR disaster forces him into a marriage of convenience with his enemy’s daughter. The girl who broke his young heart.
Fashion heiress Ophelia Rai, now a weapon of his personal revenge.
She is beautifully broken. Vulnerably determined.
Through her, he scheme
Simon Archer is made by the tragedies and scandal he endured as a child.
Ambitious. Secretive. Vengeful.
The billionaire stockbroker swore to never marry—until the threat of a PR disaster forces him into a marriage of convenience with his enemy’s daughter. The girl who broke his young heart.
Fashion heiress Ophelia Rai, now a weapon of his personal revenge.
She is beautifully broken. Vulnerably determined.
Through her, he schemes to have it all – justice for his family and closing the most important deal of his life.
There’s only one problem: now that he’s married to her, it’s only going to lead to heartbreak for his blameless wife…
Ophelia Rai is the unwanted daughter and only hope of survival of her family's fashion empire.
Workaholic. Dutiful. Desperate.
Marrying Wall Street’s most powerful man will save the family legacy from bankruptcy and public humiliation.
Even if it's to Simon Archer, ruthless stockbroker, and the boy she once loved to distraction.
While her family disapproves of this plan, Ophelia agrees to do her duty – to the company that’s her lifeline. Her identity.
Falling again for the man she can’t forget is unacceptable.
Especially because Ophelia doesn’t know she made her vows to the devil and he’s going to destroy her entire world in his secret war…
They call him the Monster of Silicon Valley...She's going to have to marry him.
Scholarship student Anya Mallya-Bhatt is trying to do it all. Graduate from her MBA program, work two jobs...and save her family from poverty. Desperate Anya finally ends up in an incriminating position!
This lands her in the crosshairs of the most powerful and elusive man in Singapore - Drake Fallahil.
His price to save her? Marry him. Be his loving wife. Just for nine
They call him the Monster of Silicon Valley...She's going to have to marry him.
Scholarship student Anya Mallya-Bhatt is trying to do it all. Graduate from her MBA program, work two jobs...and save her family from poverty. Desperate Anya finally ends up in an incriminating position!
This lands her in the crosshairs of the most powerful and elusive man in Singapore - Drake Fallahil.
His price to save her? Marry him. Be his loving wife. Just for ninety days. Or go to prison. Anya’s determined to make Drake pay for this monstrous marriage of convenience, no matter how badly she wants this ruthless billionaire's Claim.
Drake's got a billionaire problem. He needs a wife in three weeks or he loses everything.
When he finds a mysterious beauty utterly at his mercy, he does the unthinkable. Takes her as his new bride. One who defies and intrigues him. Enough to make him break all his rules and need her beyond his ruthless control.
But, fatal danger is coming to rip Anya away from Drake forever. He isn’t sure he’s going to stop it because in this pretend arrangement, Anya's Claim on him is certain…and that is surely a worse fate. Isn’t it?
When I force Formula One's newest god back to his small town for my job as a fixer, I don't expect it to end in marriage.
But that's exactly what happens.
Nihaal's dad, a billionaire client I adored, wrote a will that requires his son to marry in order to inherit.
As a future F1 champion, Nihaal doesn't need the money, but he loves his mom who stands to lose her legacy if he doesn't comply.
I have spent a year alone, avoiding my own grieving fa
When I force Formula One's newest god back to his small town for my job as a fixer, I don't expect it to end in marriage.
But that's exactly what happens.
Nihaal's dad, a billionaire client I adored, wrote a will that requires his son to marry in order to inherit.
As a future F1 champion, Nihaal doesn't need the money, but he loves his mom who stands to lose her legacy if he doesn't comply.
I have spent a year alone, avoiding my own grieving family.
So, when the grumpy racer proposes a marriage of convenience, I say 'I do'. To have a chance to heal his broken family.
But the paparazzi catch wind of our secret. Now, we're forced to fake it for the cameras--public kisses, possessive touches, and living together 24/7.
He's reckless and uncontrollable, courting death with each turn of the track.
I'm ruthlessly careful, always planning three moves ahead.
This fake marriage is doomed even if I ache to belong with him because a dark danger is about to destroy our lives...
IGNITE is a first-person dual POV standalone romance withGrumpy hero meets practical heroine aka opposites attract
Faking it for the cameras
Angsty marriage of convenience
Small town billionaire
Enemies to lovers vibes
Slow burn spice, but when it hits it will ignite
F1 thrills and glamor
Suspense you don't see coming
Here are four reasons I, Niva, know Max is not for me no matter what my sweet delusional family thinks!
1. He pairs brown sweater vests with glasses like a nerdy engineer.
2. He likes boring dal rice. I'm obsessed with spicy tandoori chicken.
3. He is now (kind of) my boss at the gaming company where I work. And his first order of business? Fire the staff.
4. I actually maybe like this other guy I'm chatting with on the game boards 'for researc
Here are four reasons I, Niva, know Max is not for me no matter what my sweet delusional family thinks!
1. He pairs brown sweater vests with glasses like a nerdy engineer.
2. He likes boring dal rice. I'm obsessed with spicy tandoori chicken.
3. He is now (kind of) my boss at the gaming company where I work. And his first order of business? Fire the staff.
4. I actually maybe like this other guy I'm chatting with on the game boards 'for research' even though we've not met yet IRL.
Then I'm forced to work with Max to launch our new game. I begin to see the hot, sweet introvert under the joyless, uptight clothes. In a moment of weakness, I ask him to be my fake date at my frenemy's wedding.
And he agrees!
Between the launch, fake dating, and the tension simmering between us, I uncover his heartbreaking secrets.
But, this doesn't mean I'm falling for my nemesis. Okay?
Because, sorry Max, you're just not my type.
You're Just Not My Type is a feel-good standalone romantic comedy with delicious desi food, gamertalk, a well-meaning interfering family, and angsty MCs who are total opposites with a guaranteed happy ever after.
"Tell me your secrets, and I'll tell you mine" - Lily.
Kit is the ultimate protector and good guy. But when his life is shattered by a damaging secret he becomes someone he doesn't recognize. Spiteful and twisted.
The only one who can get through his grumpy mood during Christmas? Single mom, Lily.
She's off-limits to him for two reasons - she is gun shy of millionaires and she is his best friend, Dev's, sister-in-law.
But Kit's brooding
"Tell me your secrets, and I'll tell you mine" - Lily.
Kit is the ultimate protector and good guy. But when his life is shattered by a damaging secret he becomes someone he doesn't recognize. Spiteful and twisted.
The only one who can get through his grumpy mood during Christmas? Single mom, Lily.
She's off-limits to him for two reasons - she is gun shy of millionaires and she is his best friend, Dev's, sister-in-law.
But Kit's brooding heart wants Lily because she drives away all the demons plaguing him.
So, he decides that the holidays are the best time to make Lily his, with her enthusiastic co-operation!
He just doesn't count on Lily's billionaire brother and his own enemies trying to end his happy ever after before it even begins.
"More than all the truths you told me, I love the way you lie" - Bharat
Once upon a time, Bharat was the bad boy of Indian tech startups. On the way to becoming the youngest billionaire, he imploded. And watched his life, his hard work, his tech crash and burn. Now, this reformed playboy has just one aim: to gain respectability and sell his newest software company for the largest profit. Until he meets her.
His ex-boss's daughter.
An innocen
"More than all the truths you told me, I love the way you lie" - Bharat
Once upon a time, Bharat was the bad boy of Indian tech startups. On the way to becoming the youngest billionaire, he imploded. And watched his life, his hard work, his tech crash and burn. Now, this reformed playboy has just one aim: to gain respectability and sell his newest software company for the largest profit. Until he meets her.
His ex-boss's daughter.
An innocent cruise employee working aboard The Lotus Dragon, Sophia is exhausted from trying to survive while taking care of her family. She does not need the extra complication of meeting Bharat, the man who destroyed her family brings.
And she especially cannot afford the explosive attraction this millionaire makes her feel. Or what her family wants her to do in order to destroy him.
What she does know? Once he knows all her truths, he won't care for her lies.
What Sophia doesn't know? Bharat is used to hostile takeovers and, this time, he is taking her heart.
"Even when all the stars align, with what I've done, you won't be mine" - Zara.
Dev was devastated when Zara banished him from Chicago ten years ago after a terrible tragedy. But he's now a successful bar owner in Southern California so he doesn't care about Zara or that life anymore. Right? Wrong.
The second Zara walks back into his life, Dev is tortured and intrigued. Should he make her pay for what she did to him or help the fragile woman she's beco
"Even when all the stars align, with what I've done, you won't be mine" - Zara.
Dev was devastated when Zara banished him from Chicago ten years ago after a terrible tragedy. But he's now a successful bar owner in Southern California so he doesn't care about Zara or that life anymore. Right? Wrong.
The second Zara walks back into his life, Dev is tortured and intrigued. Should he make her pay for what she did to him or help the fragile woman she's become now?
He doesn't know.
What he does know? He wants all of Zara. In his office. In his home. In his bed.
And if that means he has to become CEO of their family business and uncover a family secret that might devastate them all, then he'll do so.
He just has to make sure he doesn't make the same mistake again. Fall for Zara.
You Won't Be Mine is a millionaire second chance romance between two starcrossed lovers who are still destined for each other. It is the first in a series of interconnected standalone romances between a band of brothers and the strong women who love them called Filthy Rich Geeks.
"I'm so lost in the dark I can't see. Will you be willing to put together the pieces of me?" - Shiv
Shiv is a former hacker with no conscience and even less desire to mingle with people.
Especially his pretty and cheerful surgeon neighbor, Naina.
All he wants is to run his bar in peace and forget all the darkness in his past.
But, then that past comes knocking and Shiv has to make a terrible decision.
One that impacts the life of his oldest
"I'm so lost in the dark I can't see. Will you be willing to put together the pieces of me?" - Shiv
Shiv is a former hacker with no conscience and even less desire to mingle with people.
Especially his pretty and cheerful surgeon neighbor, Naina.
All he wants is to run his bar in peace and forget all the darkness in his past.
But, then that past comes knocking and Shiv has to make a terrible decision.
One that impacts the life of his oldest friend. So, this grumpy loner has no choice but to confide in his neighbor, Naina.
Unfortunately for Shiv, when he begins to trust Naina the dark of his soul craves the light in hers. While his desire for her grows out of control.
And that puts Naina in the crosshairs of those who would harm Shiv...Can Shiv save Naina while knowing he is the true threat to her life?
The Pieces of Me is a millionaire grumpy sunshine romance between two neighbors who are drawn to each other even though they are nothing alike. It is a part of a series of interconnected standalone romances between a band of filthy rich brothers and the strong, hot-mess women who love them called Filthy Rich Geeks!
Her secret crush turns out to be a secret prince! Now she’s under his royal rule.
Sasha waits tables to support her teaching degree at NYU and dreams of being a romance writer. She’s content to crush on her tall, mysterious regular from afar.
She doesn’t count on her crush to have dangerous secrets.
But, a midnight encounter to save his life turns into the ride of her uneventful life. The mysterious customer is a sec
Her secret crush turns out to be a secret prince! Now she’s under his royal rule.
Sasha waits tables to support her teaching degree at NYU and dreams of being a romance writer. She’s content to crush on her tall, mysterious regular from afar.
She doesn’t count on her crush to have dangerous secrets.
But, a midnight encounter to save his life turns into the ride of her uneventful life. The mysterious customer is a secret prince and a lethal soldier. And he wants Sasha in his castle…and his bed.
Sasha is swept into a world of royal intrigue with a brooding, scarred man capable of only breaking her heart. Wanting him is the worst possible mistake because fairy tales don’t end in happy ever after for commoners. Do they?
Alexander Heinrickson is a renegade royal. Mostly because he chose to serve and protect the innocent instead of just being the spare prince. After his black ops assignment ends, he stays in New York and chooses to work a menial job.
When an attack team comes for Xander, he’s rescued by a feisty waitress. Xander has no choice but to protect her by taking her back to his family castle. Even if she hates him for it!
Wanting Sasha is bad enough when he knows he can never offer her more than a passionate few days. But his wary heart desperately needs Sasha and her sunshine love…even if she ends up paying the ultimate price for it.
To save their world, they raced to marry. Now, they Blaze together...
Nihaal's F1 season is not going well. At all! He has to score big with the investors who hold his dream hostage. He has to win all the remaining races if he wants to win the championship. Most of all, he wants to live without the bane of his existence - smart and feisty fixer Mili. His new wife - who hates his very guts. And possibly wishes him dead.
Mili's hate for he
To save their world, they raced to marry. Now, they Blaze together...
Nihaal's F1 season is not going well. At all! He has to score big with the investors who hold his dream hostage. He has to win all the remaining races if he wants to win the championship. Most of all, he wants to live without the bane of his existence - smart and feisty fixer Mili. His new wife - who hates his very guts. And possibly wishes him dead.
Mili's hate for her brand-new charismatic husband. Or her infernal want for his race-roughened hands and the way this former playboy fits so well against her.
Never is too soon a time to see him... But, after their secret arranged marriage becomes public knowledge and the paparazzi descend on Mili and Bhatnagar Farm, this future Formula One champion has only one choice.
To protect Mili. To keep her safe. And to keep his desirous hands to himself while sharing his life with the woman whose smoky eyes, razor brain, and mile-long legs drive him insane.
The brooding billionaire is afraid he might have finally met his match with the prickly and independent Mili.
Nihaal knows the time has come to lay it all on the finish line - his skill, his passion, and his heart... All are set to Blaze.
Blaze is the heat-filled and thrilling conclusion to Nihaal and Mili's explosive marriage of convenience, enemies-to-lovers romance that began in Burn. It needs to be read after Burn (Ruthless Billionaires).
A royal vow of hate…a broken vow of protection…a final vow of death.
Princess Helena Heinrickson has a ruined reputation to redeem. Royal obligations to fulfill. What she really wants is to save the world. So Lena runs away to the other side of the world and dons an anonymous disguise.
It doesn’t stop the world’s best tracker from finding her…the same man who broke her heart seven years ago. With an assass
A royal vow of hate…a broken vow of protection…a final vow of death.
Princess Helena Heinrickson has a ruined reputation to redeem. Royal obligations to fulfill. What she really wants is to save the world. So Lena runs away to the other side of the world and dons an anonymous disguise.
It doesn’t stop the world’s best tracker from finding her…the same man who broke her heart seven years ago. With an assassin’s target on her back, Lena is forced to live with the man her brothers deem worthy enough to protect her. But Lena only deems him worthy of a vow of hate.
Unfortunately, her brooding bodyguard, her older brother’s best friend, just might be the only thing standing between her and utter chaos.
Ex-Marine and black ops agent, Shane McRae is tired of everything. The billions, the bullets, the ghosts chasing him. He’s most tired of the lies he’s told one woman – a young Princess Lena.
When he’s hired to track Lena, he grabs the chance to make things right with the girl he could never forget. Except, this passionate and alluring princess wants nothing to do with him.
With an assassin aiming for Lena, it is Shane’s job to protect her at all costs. And the chaos in his head calms down when he is around his best friend’s little sister. In bed and out of it. He isn’t sure being her bodyguard is going to redeem him in her scornful eyes…He just knows he wants to try.
Formula One golden boy, Nihaal Bhatnagar's future is about to be cemented. As a champion. A winner. But his scarred childhood collides with his bright future, forcing him to return home after fifteen years in exile, to head a billion-dollar horse racing farm in his small town
Nihaal hates it all. But he especially despises devious Mili. The hot fixer engineers his return while making him mindless with desire.
Mili Iyer's favor
Formula One golden boy, Nihaal Bhatnagar's future is about to be cemented. As a champion. A winner. But his scarred childhood collides with his bright future, forcing him to return home after fifteen years in exile, to head a billion-dollar horse racing farm in his small town
Nihaal hates it all. But he especially despises devious Mili. The hot fixer engineers his return while making him mindless with desire.
Mili Iyer's favorite client and friend has just died, leaving her with his dying wish and a new job. She must bring the reluctant prodigy, Nihaal, home, so he can inherit what's rightfully his.
Mili keeps telling herself that Nihaal is only a job. But the brooding bad boy with six-pack abs attracts her as an engine does oil. Even though he’s making her job impossible by trying to turn down the chance to be a billionaire.
When Nihaal learns his father’s unbreakable will demands that the commitment-phobe marry within three weeks, or he loses it all, he has to come up with a plan. Coercing Mili into marrying him in order to save the family’s billions will be nothing but a business arrangement.
But Mili has her own secrets, deadly danger is careening out of Bhatnagar Farm, and what began as a passionate night ends up in the arranged marriage from hell. Now Mili and Nihaal have to Race or Burn...
Burn is a forced marriage, enemies to lovers billionaire romance in the Ruthless Billionaires series. Nihaal and Mili's tempestuous story concludes in BLAZE.
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