Regretting You by Colleen Hoover

About the Book

Title: Regretting You

Author: Colleen Hoover

Release Date: December 10, 2019

Publisher: Montlake

Summary

Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.

Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body.

With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is Chris—Morgan’s husband, Clara’s father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara.

While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy she’s been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together.

Author Biography

Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including the bestselling women’s fiction novel It Ends with Us and the bestselling psychological thriller Verity. She has won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance three years in a row—for Confess (2015), It Ends with Us (2016), and Without Merit (2017). Confess was adapted into a seven-episode online series. In 2015, Hoover and her family founded the Bookworm Box, a bookstore and monthly subscription service that offers signed novels donated by authors. All profits go to various charities each month to help those in need. Hoover lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. Visit www.colleenhoover.com.

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Q&A with Author Colleen Hoover

You are ‘label-less’ in the fact that you write in several genres. Readers never know what to expect next. If someone asks, how do you label yourself?

When I self-published my first novel I had no idea what genre to put it in. I thought I had written a drama but it turns to that I had written a romance. I’ve learned a lot since then, but I still don’t put a lot of weight in genre when I write. When your best friend is begging you to read a book, it’s not going to matter what genre it is when someone you trust is passionate about the story.

To keep all of your stories and characters straight, you must be very organized.

I’m the most disorganized person you will ever meet! I have no schedule. I can’t wake up before nine in the morning. I probably don’t go to bed until like three in the morning. I usually work about 16 hours a day. 

What happens if you get blocked when you are writing? 

If I get stuck writing, I go for a drive and play music. Music really helps me plot. I love The Avett Brothers, X Ambassadors, Airborne Toxic Event...I could go on and on. 

What can you tell readers about your latest release Regretting You?

I would spoil it if I told you about it! Most of my books are like that. I can’t say what they are about or it spoils it. But I can say that Regretting You is told from a dual point-of-view centered on the inner lives of both a teen and adult protagonist.

Sounds like lots of different types of readers will be interested!

Absolutely. I wanted to write a book that bridged the gap between young adult and contemporary romance so that mothers can read with their daughters. I think it’s exciting to see people sharing reading experiences.

Combustible Punch by Paul Michael Peters

COMBUSTIBLE PUNCH

NEW THRILLER BY PAUL MICHAEL PETERS

HITTING SHELVES AUGUST 13, 2019

Rick Philips isn't a fighter - but he is a survivor

Haunted by memories of a high school shooting, not even the bottle can wash away the gnawing guilt and creeping feelings of inadequacy that batter Rick’s conscience daily. 

His life has been a mess of broken marriages, writer’s block, terrible choices, and the morbid pity of others.

When he meets Harriet at a writer’s conference, the record doesn’t scratch as he falls back – only this time, he may not get up.

Harriet Bristol Wheeler is a dark temptress – and self-confessed serial killer

Harriet has no problem killing – and even fewer issues blending back into the background after the act with the cool, calculating eye of a practiced social chameleon.

Manipulative, unpredictable, and exceptionally intelligent, she’s Rick’s worst nightmare – and the ideal subject for his next book.

A book that they are both desperate to write.

Time is running out – but the sadness will last forever

Rick has no choice but to enter the cracked twilight of Harriet’s world and confront the history of her murderous choices up close.

As Rick starts to gather the evidence for his long-anticipated book, he finds himself looking into answers that put him in even more danger than before – but this time, he may not survive at all.

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Operation X by Captain MNR Samant

Truth is stranger and more thrilling than fiction

HarperCollins India brings you

the explosive authentic account of the covert guerrilla operation

that went for the maritime jugular of Pakistan, and facilitated the birth of Bangladesh

THE HEROIC MISSION UNDERTAKEN BY CAPTAIN MNR SAMANT AND HIS BAND OF BRAVE MEN

About the Book

1971. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman in East Pakistan has just won an electoral mandate to become the prime minister of Pakistan. Accustomed to treating the eastern wing of the country as a colony, the military dictatorship of General Yahya Khan in West Pakistan launches a genocide against the residents of its eastern wing, flooding India with lakhs of refugees. With the violence in East Pakistan reaching a crescendo, the Indian government is faced with a difficult option: remain a mute spectator to the savagery on its eastern borders, or take action and go to war against its western neighbour.

Thus was born Naval Commando Operations (X) – comprising Indian navy officers and divers, eight deserters from a Pakistani submarine, and a ragtag bunch of educated Bengali youth fleeing the genocide – one of India’s largest clandestine operations, meant to destabilize the West Pakistani efforts to bring East Pakistan to its knees.

Revealed for the very first time, here is the explosive authentic account of the covert guerrilla operation that went for the maritime jugular of Pakistan, and facilitated the birth of Bangladesh.

                           

“I had heard from sources about the exploits of the Bangladeshi Mukti Bahini frogmen and the Indian Navy personnel in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. I was then pleasantly surprised to discover that Capt. MNR Samant (now 89), who headed the Naval Commando Operation X, was a neighbour of mine. I was introduced to him by Cdr Kapil, a mutual acquaintance. But at that point I had absolutely no idea how big the Operation X covert effort was, or how enormously significant its results were to the course of the war in 1971.

Operation X was a covert maritime warfare unit established in April 1971 and run directly by the Directorate of Naval Intelligence. The unit, a grouping of submariners, aviators and specialist divers, was tasked with waging strategic guerrilla warfare in the seas and rivers of erstwhile East Pakistan. They fought a tenacious four-month riverine guerrilla war which has few precedents in recent history, and which to a great extent determined the outcome of the 1971 war.

It took us nearly two years to put this book together. A lot of initial research had been done by Capt. Samant and Cdr Kapil, but a lot more additional information was needed. What made our task doubly difficult was the fact that almost fifty years have passed since the 1971 war: most of the principal characters are no longer there and few records have survived. Old diaries, notes and of course extensive interviews with the surviving personnel helped us reconstruct the events of 1971. Cdr Kapil and I toured Bangladesh in 2017 to visit key places associated with the operation and to meet with former naval commandos. The story that emerged was a breathtaking, thrilling one.

We hope this book will pay tribute to all the fearless men and women who fought the war for the liberation of Bangladesh.” – Sandeep Unnithan, co-author, Operation X

“It’s really exciting for us at HarperCollins to be publishing the untold story of Operation X, the covert naval intelligence operation that played a significant role in the 1971 war with Pakistan. Operation X reads like an edge-of-the-seat thriller, but everything in the book is true, and uncovered through meticulous research. The details of this stunning covert operation are now revealed to readers for the very first time. I’m truly grateful to Captain MNR Samant and Sandeep Unnithan for bringing this thrilling true story to light in such a remarkable way. This May, readers will be able to encounter an unrevealed glorious chapter of India’s naval intelligence triumph in the 1971 war with Pakistan, and appreciate the heroism and sacrifices made by the Mukti Bahini and the Indian Navy in the course of the Bangladesh Liberation War.” – Udayan Mitra, Publisher – Literary, HarperCollins India

About the Authors

Captain MNR Samant (1930-2019) was a recipient of India’s second-highest gallantry award, the Maha Vir Chakra, for conspicuous gallantry in the face of enemy fire during the 1971 India-Pakistan War. He was Staff Officer, G1 (Nav Ops X) of this covert naval warfare unit. He passed away on 20 March 2019.

Sandeep Unnithan is an executive editor with India Today where he writes on security-related issues. He is the author of Black Tornado: The Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11.

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A Will to Kill by RV Raman

A haunted manor. A dead body. A house full of suspects.

‘A Will to Kill is a clean, classic whodunit modelled after the mysteries of yesteryear. Set in a remote mansion and a misty valley, devoid of sleaze and profanity, it seeks to thrill purely by suspense and intrigue. This is my first cosy mystery after writing four corporate crime thrillers.’ – R.V. Raman, Author

‘A Will to Kill brings together all the most loved elements of any great murder mystery – a house full of colourful suspects, a wonderfully complex plot and a compelling, intriguing sleuth. That the story is set in a haunted manor nestled in the picturesque Nilgiris makes everything that much better.’ – Swati Daftuar, Commissioning Editor – HarperCollins India

About the book:

An ageing and wheelchair-bound Bhaskar Fernandez has finally reclaimed his family property after a bitter legal battle, and now wants to reunite his aggrieved relatives. So, he invites them to his remote Greybrooke Manor in the misty Nilgiris – a colonial mansion that has played host to several sudden deaths, and now stands alone in a valley that is said to be haunted by the ghost of an Englishman.

But Bhaskar has other, more practical, problems to deal with. He knows that his guests expect to gain by his death and, to safeguard himself against violence, he writes two conflicting wills. Which one of them comes into force will depend on how he dies.

Into this tinderbox, he brings Harith Athreya, a seasoned investigator. When a landslide occurs, temporarily isolating them and resulting in a murder, Athreya finds that death is not the only thing the mist conceals.

About the author:

R.V. Raman has led KPMG’s Consulting Practice, and was a Partner with A.T. Kearney and Arthur Andersen. After a corporate career spanning three decades and four continents, R. V. Raman moved away from full time roles. He now teaches business strategy at an IIM, mentor young entrepreneurs, advises select clients and writes. He’s the author of Fraudster, Insider and Saboteur (Hachette) – a series about white-collar crime in corporate India. He lives in Chennai.

Paperback | pp 332 | Rs. 399