When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)

by Sandhya Menon

“Hello, future wife,” he said, his voice bubbling with glee. “I can’t wait to get started on the rest of our lives!” Dimple stared at him for the longest minute. The only word her brain was capable of producing, in various tonal permutations, was: What? What? Dimple didn’t know what to think. Serial killer? Loony bin escapee? Strangely congenial mugger? Nothing made sense. So she did the only thing she could think to do in the moment—she flung her iced coffee at him and ran the other way.

I absolutely loved writing this introductory scene between Dimple and Rishi. By this point in the book, readers are very aware that Dimple and Rishi have very different ideas of the coding camp they’re both attending. Dimple sees it as a power career move (which it is!), while Rishi sees it as more of a…romantic opportunity. Because Rishi is such a golden retriever at heart, I just had to show him putting his heart on his sleeve, no guile, no game. And, of course, Dimple, being more of a German shepherd herself, puts him right in his place!