The Diwali Detour

She plans everything. Diwali has other ideas.

Maya Kapoor lives by colour-coded spreadsheets. The junior equity partnership at her Manhattan firm is one signature away — all she has to do is fly to Chicago, close the merger over the holiday weekend, and not think about Diwali.

Then a Midwestern thunderstorm grounds her flight in Oakhaven, Ohio, a town already glowing with festival lights. With no car, no signal and no plan B, she trades her tailored suits for a flour-dusted apron at Sharma Sweets, the family mithai shop run by Dev Sharma — a man who measures time in the rise of the sugar syrup, not in billable hours.

As the two of them fold gift boxes, roll kaju katli and string marigolds across Main Street, Maya’s careful defences begin to crack. But when a corporate betrayal lands at Dev’s door, she must choose between the career she has spent a lifetime climbing toward and the life — and love — she never planned for.

What’s inside

• A warm, closed-door small-town holiday romance
• Forced proximity, opposites attract, sunshine-and-grump energy
• Fifteen chapters of Diwali mithai, marigolds and Midwestern charm

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