“If she could win this war inside of her, she could win anything else. Why was she doing this? The answer came to her right away—because she mattered. Her dreams mattered. More than Baba’s disapproval, even more than his love. At that moment, everything else stopped being of consequence. She would not walk away from this. Not this time.”
Hi, I’m Soniya, a Women’s Fiction, Young Adult & Thriller Writer.
I write stories about fierce, ambitious Indian women fighting to carve a path for themselves in a world that tells them they have no such right.
“She thought about her broken dreams, the life she would never have, the adventures she would never go on, all for the sake of funding an election. Something cracked wide open inside her chest, sending a seismic wave of anger and hurt bolting through her.”
Manuscripts
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The heart of WELL BEHAVED INDIAN WOMEN meets the humor of AYESHA AT LAST and optimism of the 80' classic film FAME when twenty-two-year-old Savari, armed with grit and more Bollywood trivia than a Wikipedia entry, escapes an arranged marriage and her despotic father to chase her Bollywood dream of becoming an actress.
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In the city-state of Maha-Amba—a bustling metropolis divided along class lines in near-future India—seventeen-year-old Deepika Sawant, the president’s daughter, makes a pact with a spy for the burgeoning rebellion to steal state secrets for his help to escape marriage with a wealthy but sadistic ally funding her father’s re-election. But when she makes a devastating discovery, the president’s daughter must choose: go back to the life she has worked hard to escape or fight alongside the people who—despite all she has sacrificed—see her as a bargaining chip.