Indian Women

Young Roxana Weston is off to boarding school, first in nearby Hallowell and then in Boston, where an evil manstealer is out to kidnap some of her new friends. Based on the lives of real people.

Mother wants me to marry and create an heir. I’m a busy CEO. I don’t have time to date and the last thing I want is a whiny brat to take care of. But Mother insists. To get her off my back, I agreed to meet the three socialites she chose for me. Then I met Ellie. One paycheck away from being homeless, Eleanor is fired by her ex’s jealous new wife. Just when she thinks her day can’t get any worse, she witnesses a tragic car accident and rescues an infant. Then she meets his uncle, Millionaire and CEO Andrew Carmichael. I hired Ellie out of desperation. The more time I spend with her,...

She was back, back to where it all started… …but more importantly she was within his grasp--and this time he wasn't letting go. Zachariah Waatese watched as his first and only love walked back into town trying to pretend she had forgotten him, trying to treat him like a stranger. But he could see from the nervous way she bit her lip, or how the thrash of her pulse reached his sensitive ears--that she remembered. This time things were different. With no protective family standing in the way to whisk her to safety--she was all his. Something had called her back. Back to the small coastal ...

Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. In the arc of one year, an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city, in the middle of her life’s journey, realizes that she’s lost her way. The city she calls home acts as a companion and interlocutor: traversing the streets around her house, and in parks, piazzas, museums, stores, and coffee bars, she feels less alone.

In Alaska, people disappear every day. In Aleut detective Kate Shugak's Park, they've been disappearing a lot lately. Hikers head into the wilderness unprepared and get lost. Miners quit without notice at the busy Suulutaq Mine. Suicides leave farewell notes and vanish. Not only are Park rats disappearing at an alarming rate, but so is life in the Park as Kate knows it.

On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree - becoming the first Native American doctor in US history. She earned her degree 31 years before women could vote and 35 years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. This is the story of an Indian woman who effectively became the chief of an entrenched patriarchal tribe, the story of a woman who crashed through thick walls of ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice and then spent the rest of her life using a unique bicultural identity to improve the lot of her people.

Saloni Malhotra is miserable with her lonely and servile existence in Chicago, while her husband Dr. Manish Chawla is too selfish to be bothered about his wife’s happiness. It’s watching her sister’s closeness to her new husband that actually opens Saloni’s eyes to the lack in her life. Aarav Chopra hasn’t looked at another woman since he fell in love with the seventeen-year-old Saloni. The nine years in-between seem to disappear when he sets eyes on her again at her sister’s wedding. But this time round, his love stretches to include her son too, as Mitesh holds not just ...

Victoria Evergreen has nothing going for her: she’s a mere store clerk, reeling from the after-effects of a terrible breakup, and the only saving grace in her life is her best friend, Sherri. But when Tori chances upon a $10,000 lottery ticket to an invite-only date contest, her life takes an unexpected turn. Enter Dhruv Patel, Olympic skier, international lawyer, dream hunk. The two chance upon a beautiful, electrifying romance, but little does Dhruv know that Tori stole the lottery ticket. And little does Tori know… Dhruv holds secrets of his own. Will their respective secrets cost ...

Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in the fiery crash of his Piper Super Cub. Someone sabotaged his engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive, including his betrayed wife, his bullied children, and Liam’s wife, bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard. With few places to turn, Liam asks his former mentor Niniltna post commander Sergeant Jim Chopin, for help, and Jim quickly brings Kate onto the case. Working undercover as - of all things - a waitress at Bill’s Bar and Grill, Kate learns over beer and burgers that Grant’s business had expanded meteorically over the last two years.

Dr. Trisha Raje is San Francisco’s most acclaimed neurosurgeon. But that’s not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who’s achieved power by making its own nonnegotiable rules: Never trust an outsider, never do anything to jeopardize your brother’s political aspirations, and never, ever, defy your family. Trisha is guilty of breaking all three rules. But now, she has a chance to redeem herself. So long as she doesn’t repeat old mistakes.

From Forever Morris Publishing's best selling author, Chanel Ivy, comes the first book in a thrilling new female superhero series, "Her Voice of Justice - Book One of the Emily Black Chronicles." The first installment of the Emily Black Chronicles is an exciting dive into Emily Black's world as she uncovers her new abilities born from a brutal assault. Emily was an average young woman who never really stood out to anyone before. Sure, she has a mouth like a trucker and the same sense of humor as a twelve-year-old boy, but overall she's a decent law-abiding citizen. That is until she was ...

Ritvik Bansal’s decision to father a surrogate child comes as a total shock to his family, more because he insists that he needs no wife. Two years down the line, Sia Rathod goes to work at Ritvik’s 5-star hotel Maharaja International as the salon manager at Cleopatra’s. They connect instantaneously as sparks fly. After spending time in each other’s company, they take their relationship to the next level. Will Ritvik change his mind about getting married? Even if he does, will Sia agree to become his wife as well as to be mother to two-year-old Aarya? Especially with the kind of ...

Inside Alaska's biggest national park, surrounding the town of Niniltna, a gold mining company has started buying up land. The residents of the Park, are uneasy. "But gold is up to nine hundred dollars an ounce," is the refrain of Talia Macleod, the popular Alaskan skiing champ the company hired to improve their relations with Alaskans. And she promises much needed jobs to the locals. But before she can make her way to every village in the area to make her case at town meetings and village breakfasts, there are two murders—one a long-standing mine opponent, and Ms. Macleod herself.

This is an expanded edition of the original story. Same story, same great ending, but more details! Awinita, The Legend. It is a fictional story inspired by old family stories handed down for generations in the author’s family. This is fiction and in no way indicates the life lived of the woman who inspired the story. It is a story of a Native American woman taken as a child by accident when a group of four settlers tracked down the Indians that had taken three of their young daughters. During the still of the night, the men quietly slipped into the Indian's camp and stole the young girls...

Anila Mallik has sworn off relationships after her husband’s death. Who else can love her son as much as his father? She is a wealthy Wellington Estates businesswoman, and that’s quite enough for her. Her encounters with Avinash Singhania leave her questioning her resolve, but the idea of letting someone new into her life scares her almost as much as the stalker who won’t leave her alone. Successful lawyer Avinash Singhania is left jaded by love after a disastrous divorce. But when he meets Anila Mallik, he finds himself unable to stay away. Things get complicated when Anila and ...

At thirty-nine, Anjali Mathur feels like an exotic bird trapped in a golden cage, hating the life of the idle wife of a multi-millionaire husband who simply has neither the time nor the inclination to give her his attention. She meets Parth at a common friend’s party. It’s not just his looks that Anjali’s attracted to, but his gentle and understanding nature. At forty-two, Parth Bhardwaj is an internationally famous author, writing under a pseudonym. Always having steered clear of married women, he has a difficult time keeping away from Anjali, feeling drawn to her from the moment he ...

Historical photographs are on display at the museum of St. Francis Mission on the Arapaho reservation, and history seems doomed to repeat itself. A descendant of the tribal chief who appeared in the pictures has been shot to death, and the museum's curator has disappeared. The two incidents may be linked to a near century-old murder.

In India, marriage is more than a contract. It is the joining of earthly and divine goods. Marriage forges a new path for the next generation as well as riches, social standing, gratification, and refuge. It is also a wonderful melding of ideas, emotions, as well as hurdles and their corresponding resolutions. Put simply, Indian marriages are not just a two-person affair. It is the coming together of family and community with love at the forefront. However, as with all things in life, marriage is not black and white. When love and understanding ebb, heartbreak and sorrow flow. But does this...

Haunted by salacious rumors about her family, Juhi Raina grew up straddling two worlds, the traditional Indian and the modern American. After a bad break-up, all she wants is a no-strings-attached fling. But heir-turned-photographer Connor Riley is more than she bargained for. Connor shuns his family’s wealth and abhors all form of pretense. His intense attraction to the down-to-earth Juhi threatens to convert the fling into something more serious neither is prepared for. But the past unravels, revealing secrets about Juhi's family that may be best left unopened. Book 2 of the Wellington ...

Discover a Deeply Intrinsic Story That Speaks of Betrayal, Pain, and Forgiveness... Life is never a straight line…When a heart is closed off due to betrayal and pain, sometimes the only cure is to open it and take a chance… Independent and full of life, Priya was a typical modern-day woman in India until she became a victim of sexual abuse in her workplace. Humiliated, with her heart filled with fear and with her soul shattered into thousand pieces, she was hiding from the world, hoping that the pain would go away - to make things worse, the encounter left her pregnant. However, despite...