Publication Date: February 16, 2026
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
Genre: Contemporary Romance
At barely twenty-eight, the internationally famous cricketer Kyrshan Nongrum decides to retire from mainstream cricket, not giving a valid reason to the baying media. He returns home to Sohra in Meghalaya, planning to resurrect his life there.
His neighbour from childhood, Pareen Sangma, has been crushing on the cricketer from the time she was thirteen, and he sixteen. While she barely gets to see him in person, not once he left home to become a world champion, she continues to worship him through TV, newspapers and social media. She’s the most surprised when Kyrshan returns home to take up residence in Sohra.
While Kyrshan is in search of his life’s purpose, he finds himself falling deeply in love with Pareen, who has a scintillating career as the Sub-Divisional Magistrate of the small hill station and is absolutely clear about her life’s ambition: to serve the people of her hometown.
While the world has been his oyster over the last dozen years, will the small town be able to hold a famous persona such as Kyrshan?
Into this scenario walks in Leela Garg, a popular cricket show host who also happens to be his ex-flame, determined to drag him back to mainstream cricket. Will she be able to persuade Kyrshan to her way of thinking?
And what about Pareen who’s dreaming of becoming Kyrshan’s life partner after all these years? Will she be able to get what she has wanted for twelve long years? Or will Kyrshan leave her in the lurch?
Read this novel which is part of my PAN INDIA series to find out if there’s a happy ending for Pareen.
*Sohra (formerly called Cherrapunji) is a small hill station in Meghalaya, set on a plateau on the southern range of the Khasi Hills. It’s a flourishing green town with multiple waterfalls and living root bridges, and is one of the wettest places on earth.
TROPES
• Her childhood crush
• His best friend’s sister
• Small town romance
• Indian romance
• International cricketer MMC
• Government officer FMC
• He’s head over heels
• Slow burn romance
Sundari Venkatraman is an Indie Author who has 78 books to her credit, the latest book being RETIRED HURT, the third book in her PAN INDIA Series, set in Meghalaya, India. Her books have consistently featured in the Top 100 Bestseller Lists on Amazon India, Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada and Amazon Australia in both romance as well as Asian Drama categories. Her latest hot romances have all been on #1 Bestseller slot in Amazon India for over a month.
These days, the author is independently publishing her novels in paperback format under her banner Flaming Sun, printed and distributed by Notion Press.
Even as a child, Sundari absolutely loved the ‘lived happily ever after’ syndrome and she grew up on a steady diet of fairy tales, Phantom comics and Mandrake comics. It was always about good triumphing over evil and a happy ending after the protagonists surmounted all unexpected obstacles.
Once she entered her teens, Sundari switched her loyalties from fairy tales to Mills & Boon. While she loved reading both of these, she kept visualising what would have happened if there were similar situations happening in India; to local heroes and heroines. And of course, the joy of vanquishing the ubiquitous evil villains! Her imagination soared and she happily ensconced herself in a rosy romantic cocoon for many years.
Then came the writing—a true bolt from the blue! And Sundari Venkatraman has never looked back.
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