{"id":6575,"date":"2017-02-15T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T06:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trulymadly.com\/blog\/?p=6575"},"modified":"2022-01-12T13:00:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T13:00:59","slug":"every-time-it-rains-an-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trulymadly.com\/blog\/every-time-it-rains-an-excerpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Time It Rains &#8211; An Excerpt by Author Nikita Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The country&#8217;s bestselling author Nikita Singh is back! This time with &#8220;<\/span><\/i><b><i>Every Time It Rains<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.&#8221; Come join her in an adventurous journey of love and heartbreak, but first\u2026 here&#8217;s a little sneak peek.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was dark and quiet at this time of the day. It was Laila&#8217;s favorite time\u2014she liked dark and quiet. Most bakers she knew woke early to bake, starting off their days on the right note, ensuring a draft of fragrant air escaping from every open door and window of their bakery to seduce customers in. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She, on the other hand, liked to end her day baking. During the day, she was a businesswoman, the primary person in charge of the operation of two rapidly growing bakeries in New Delhi. She worked long days, putting out fires, ensuring that everything ran smoothly. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, after their shops closed every evening, she took the time to go through the day&#8217;s sales herself, wrap everything up, prepare the shops for the next morning and do her favorite thing of all\u2014bake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While her best friend and business partner Maahi was at their Shahpur Jat shop, closing for the day, Laila was at their second, newer shop, the one in Hauz Khas Village. They had opened it only four months ago, and it still wasn&#8217;t as smooth an operation as their first shop and needed more attention. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They referred to their Shahpur Jat shop as One and the one in Hauz Khas Village as Two in order to keep things simple. After their two employees at Two\u2014Javed, who helped them bake, and Aparna, who managed the counter\u2014had left for the day, Laila sat under a warm lamp hanging from the ceiling, checking inventory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Whoa! You scared me\u2014sitting there like a ghost!&#8217; came a voice from the door. &#8216;What are you doing here?&#8217; Laila asked, looking up from her iPad and smiling at Maahi. &#8216;All good at One?&#8217; &#8216;All good at One. Clean and shiny and closed, thank God. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was such a long day! Did you know Ram&#8217;s grandfather once fought a lion and came out alive to tell the story? I do now. I heard the story\u2014a very long and very dull version of it.&#8221; Hard to imagine a story of a human battling a lion being dull.&#8217; &#8216;It was, and I had to hear all of it because I asked!&#8217; Maahi&#8217;s lips twisted to the side. &#8216;I feel bad for him, though. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At least here, Javed and Aparna have each other. There at One, Ram has no one to talk to all day except me.&#8217; &#8216;So basically Ram is your new best friend.&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Basically.&#8217; Maahi snorted. &#8216;I came over to ask my old best friend for an opinion on something. Walking here was a bad idea, though.&#8217; Maahi hopped in front of the air conditioner vent and fanned herself furiously with her hands. &#8216;I couldn&#8217;t find an auto, and then this one dude asked for forty bucks\u2014like I&#8217;m an idiot!&#8217; &#8216;You do kind of look like one.&#8217; &#8216;Laila! So mean!&#8217; &#8216;What\u2014just stating facts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;re the one jumping in front of the AC, looking like an idiot.&#8217; Laila laughed at Maahi and went to join her by the window. The cold air from the AC did feel nice on her face. Her hands automatically went to massage the back of her neck. &#8216;Really that hot outside?&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"about-the-book\">About the Book<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;<\/span><b>Every Time It Rains<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216; is about a girl named Laila who &#8216;once was in love,&#8217; was wounded and heartbroken but still became happier due to it. Laila felt she had it all: a famous bakery business that could go global if she pulled off the huge deal and the love of her parents. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before a tragic encounter. She concluded she didn&#8217;t want anything to do with JD, a rambunctious, free-spirited man who was upsetting her peaceful life. Despite this, they are irresistibly drawn to each other. But can Laila put her confidence in him? And besides, he is her polar opposite. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is life-affirming, while she is self-destructive. The more she learns about him, the more she needs to, but nightmares from her past continue to plague her present, preventing her from doing so. And here&#8217;s the truth about &#8216;<\/span><b>Every Time It Rains<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:&#8217; he helps her experience something she didn&#8217;t even realize she needed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Every Time It Rains<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tells the tale of every girl whose heart has been shattered. And even then, dare to love once more. No doubt &#8216;<\/span><b>Every Time It Rains&#8217; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">became a bestseller.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Order your copy of Every Time It Rains <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/EveryTimeItRains\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div><i>Watch out for more such exciting\u00a0<span class=\"m_5750534608867315249gmail-m_7379388860083124667m_6151593924678700209m_4481475320850603192gmail-il\">excerpts<\/span>\u00a0<\/i><i>from Harper Collins India\u00a0<\/i><i>that will keep you hooked on our\u00a0<span class=\"m_5750534608867315249gmail-m_7379388860083124667m_6151593924678700209m_4481475320850603192gmail-il\"><span class=\"il\">blog<\/span><\/span>!<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Related Post: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/trulymadly.com\/blog\/dating-a-book-lover-and-where-to-meet-them\/\">Dating A Book Lover- And Where To Meet Them<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Also Check out &amp; Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/trulymadly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">TrulyMadly<\/a>\u00a0Dating App for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/TRULYM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Android and iOS<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The country&#8217;s bestselling author Nikita Singh is back! 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