A Scandalous Secret. Jaishree Misra

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      Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction.

       The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9781847561862

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      Version: 2018-07-19

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      Contents

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Chapter One

      Neha stood at the door to her spacious living room…

      Chapter Two

      Sonya lay under her duvet and looked around the bedroom…

      Chapter Three

      By midnight, Neha was so exhausted by her hostess duties…

      Chapter Four

      The eighteenth birthday party was to be held in the…

      Chapter Five

      Sharat walked towards the breakfast room, humming a jaunty tune.

      Chapter Six

      Waking up the day after her party, Sonya studiously avoided…

      Chapter Seven

      On the evening after her dinner party, Neha mustered the…

      Chapter Eight

      In the kitchen of the Shaw household, Laura gave her…

      Chapter Nine

      It was only when she was two hundred kilometres outside…

      Chapter Ten

      Sonya glowered at Tim from her cross-legged perch on the…

      Chapter Eleven

      When the floor was icy cold, and Neha’s body had…

      Chapter Twelve

      Laura watched Sonya throw a handful of cotton bras into…

      Chapter Thirteen

      Neha sat up, unsure of how many hours had passed…

      Chapter Fourteen

      Sonya looked down at the massive city that her plane…

      Chapter Fifteen

      At Delhi’s domestic terminal, Sharat walked past baggage collection and…

      Chapter Sixteen

      Sonya managed to hold on until they had exited the…

      Chapter Seventeen

      The therapist indicated that the massage had ended by gently…

      Chapter Eighteen

      By the time Sonya and Estella had made their way…

      Chapter Nineteen

      By her third day in Ananda, Neha felt as though…

      Chapter Twenty

      Later that evening, back in her room at Ananda, Neha…

      Chapter Twenty-One

      It was 1992, my eighteenth birthday party – the last…

      Chapter Twenty-Two

      Neha’s voice hung in the air as she finally looked…

      Chapter Twenty-Three

      Sonya looked up at the towering Qutb Minar, the tip…

      Chapter Twenty-Four

      Neha watched the landscape change as the car she was…

      Chapter Twenty-Five

      After Keshav had deposited Sonya and Estella back at the…

      Chapter Twenty-Six

      Neha replaced the phone receiver with trembling hands. Her heart…

      Chapter Twenty-Seven

      There were no more tears from Sonya that afternoon, but…

      Chapter Twenty-Eight

      After her ghastly meeting with Sonya in Lodhi Gardens, Neha…

      Chapter Twenty-Nine

      Sonya was starting to get uncomfortable lying on the lumpy…

      Chapter Thirty