The road to romance begins with…one wrong turn.
Researcher Poorvi Gupta is desperate to reach her medical conference in Dublin on time to secure grant funding with her presentation. But when her flight is diverted due to bad weather, Poorvi agrees to share a rental car with a fellow passenger—a man as hot as Madras curry…and just as vexing.
Ophthalmologist Kavan Shashane is traveling to Dublin to head off a researcher whose study puts his family’s practice at risk. Until then, he’s content to ride with the enigmatic woman he met on the plane. Soon, sparks are flying like Holi colors! Their attraction is real, but will they still have eyes for each other when they discover the truth?
“Don’t waste time. Don’t save the good things for later.”
Dear Ms. Shroff,
Aw, two doctors falling in love with the help of a crafty grandmother. I knew I was going to have a good time with this one and I did.
Poorvi, on her way to Dublin to make a presentation on her research findings, is hunting for an open charging outlet at the airport when she’s beaten to the punch by a Hot Guy. Both need the electricity and frustrated Poorvi comes off the worse. Hot Guy, aka Kavan, meets up with her again on the plane when the elderly Indian woman he’d seen earlier needs some help. Raised well, Poorvi and Kavan both spring into action to help the Gujarati speaking lady who reminds them both of their grandmothers.
Before long, “Ba,” as both are calling her, has turned her matchmaking eyes in their directions and, let’s face it, they both need to give up then and there. Instead it will take a road trip across south Ireland, some Instagram pics and bad press, and both Poorvi and Kavan standing up to their pasts plus believing in what they might have found before Ba’s work is done.
Of course Poorvi and Kavan have a professional conflict between them that will spring up at the worst time but, for most of the book, they’re not aware that the other is the person that their respective co-workers are texting them unceasingly about. Instead, they travel with Ba (who could run a large corporation or a small country, quite well, if she wanted to) to various Irish tourist attractions, talk, and slowly begin revealing their deepest issues.
I have to be honest that there are times when Poorvi’s “take no prisoners” “attack first is the best defense” is frustrating but I figured that she must have a reason. And it’s one that a lot of professional women have been hit with. Kavan shows his true colors when he immediately believes what she says in her defense. Meanwhile, Poorvi listens to what Kavan says about his brother and their father’s early death then puts things together to offer Kavan a new way to look at how controlling his brother Naveen can be.
When the fit hits the shan, as of course it does, I can’t blame Poorvi for falling back on her standard defensive posture. When she stands up for herself before all her colleagues, I cheered. Then Kavan defends her as well, something the men in her professional life hadn’t done. Kavan takes control of his life by finally setting his own boundaries to be his own man. Still, it takes Ba to push a bit plus some long haul transatlantic flights and thinking time before everything is worked out with a HEA under Clery’s clock in Dublin. Oh, and I want a Ba in my life, too. Her tribute to her late husband is truly touching. B
~Jayne
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Jayne
Another long time reader who read romance novels in her teens, then took a long break before started back again about 25 years ago. She enjoys historical romance/fiction best, likes contemporaries, action- adventure and mysteries, will read suspense if there’s no TSTL characters and is currently reading more fantasy and SciFi.
