Title:
The Other Side
Series:
Book #1 in the Island Girls Trilogy
Author:
Zee Monodee
Line:
Ubuntu (geared to African Romance)
Publisher:
Decadent Publishing, LLC
Release
date: July 30, 2013
Genre:
Contemporary Romance/ Romantic Comedy/ Interracial Multicultural Romance/
Bollywood
Length:
272 pages
Heat
Level: Sensual/ 2 flames
Blurb:
Divorce paints a scarlet letter on her back when she
returns to the culture-driven society of Mauritius. This same spotlight shines
as a beacon of hope for the man who never stopped loving her. Can the second
time around be the right one for these former teenage sweethearts?
Indian-origin Lara Reddy left London after her husband
dumps her for a more accommodating uterus—at least, that’s what his desertion
feels like. Bumping into him and his pregnant new missus doesn’t help matters
any, and she thus jumps on a prestigious job offer. The kicker? The job is in
Mauritius, the homeland of her parents, and a society she ran away from over a
decade earlier.
But once there, Lara has no escape. Not from the
gossip, the contempt, the harassing matchmaking...and certainly not from the
man she hoped never to meet again. The boy she’d loved and lost—white Mauritian
native, Eric Marivaux.
Back when they were teens, Eric left her, and Lara
vowed she’d never let herself be hurt again. Today, they are both adults, and
facing the same crossroads they’d stood at so many years earlier.
Lara now stands on the other side of Mauritian
society. Will this be the impetus she needs to take a chance on Eric and love
again?
Buy Links:
Decadent
Publishing http://www.decadentpublishing.com/product_info.php?products_id=817&osCsid=uk690a1muqacdt8v6csmtuo7d2
Amazon
(available at the discounted price of $2.99) http://www.amazon.com/Other-Side-Island-Girls-ebook/dp/B00E77XHG6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375035073&sr=8-1&keywords=the+other+side+zee+monodee
Trailer:
About the author :
Zee Monodee
Stories about love, life, relationships... in a melting-pot of culture
Zee is an author who grew up on a fence – on one side there was modernity
and the global world, on the other there was culture and traditions. Putting up
with the culture for half of her life, one day she decided she'd stand tall on
her wall and dip toes every now and then into both sides of her
non-conventional upbringing.
From this resolution spanned a world of adaptation and learning to live
on said wall. The realization also came that many other young women of the
world were on their own fence.
This particular position became her favorite when she decided to pursue her
lifelong dream of writing – her heroines all sit 'on a fence', whether cultural
or societal, in today's world or in times past, and face dilemmas about life
and love.
Hailing from the multicultural island of Mauritius, Zee is a degree
holder in Communications Science. She is a head-over-heels wife, in-over-her-head
mum to a tween son, best-buddy-stepmum to a teenage lad, an incompetent
domestic goddess, eternal dreamer, and an absolute, shameless bookholic. When
she isn’t penning more stories and/or managing the Ubuntu line at Decadent
Publishing, you can bet you’ll find her with her nose in her tablet, ‘drinking
in’ a good book.
Tidbits about this book & series (please choose 1 or 2, whichever you feel more
relevant for your blog):
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The Island Girls trilogy follows the 3 Hemant sisters – Lara, Neha, Diya – over
the span of the 2000-2010 decade, chronicling the changing face of the
Mauritian society over that crucial period.
-
Book 2, Light My World, is Diya’s
hilarious quest to find Prince Charming in the sea of frogs that is Mauritius
(well, what it is according to her
perception!). Follow her on this desperate mission in September 2013.
-
Book 3, Winds of Change, follows Neha
as she must come to terms with widowhood and the fact that her marriage has
always been a sham. In waltzes a man with the ability to make the perfect,
‘saintly’ widow she is burn with passion like she never suspected existed. Will
the saint turn into a sinner, or find her rightful place simply as a woman?
Find out in November 2013.
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