Almost Always: When Your Ex Walks Back Into Your Life | A Mumbai Romance of Love, Friendship, Heartbreak & Second Chances

About the Book

What happens when the person you tried so hard to forget suddenly walks back into your life?

Tara Kaur has spent months trying to move forward. She has her work, her writing, her best friend Anya, and a life that appears to be moving in the right direction. But beneath the confidence and sarcasm, she is still carrying the weight of a relationship she never completely understood—or completely let go of.

Then, on an ordinary night at the Mumbai airport, she sees him again.

Sameer.

The man who once meant everything to her.

Their unexpected reunion brings old emotions rushing back, forcing Tara to confront memories she thought she had buried. At the same time, her friendship with Anya begins to reveal its own layers of pain, secrets and vulnerability. As the past keeps finding its way into the present, Tara must navigate love, friendship, ambition, heartbreak and the possibility of a new beginning.

Set against the familiar chaos of Mumbai, Almost Always is an emotionally charged story about people who enter our lives, change us, leave us—and sometimes return when we least expect them.

Inside the book, readers will discover:

• A complicated love story between Tara and Sameer
• The emotional aftermath of heartbreak and separation
• An unexpected second chance with someone from the past
• A deeply personal friendship between Tara and Anya
• Secrets, memories and unresolved emotions
• The struggle between holding on and letting go
• A young woman's journey through writing, ambition and self-discovery
• The idea that some relationships remain with us even after they end
• New beginnings that emerge from painful experiences

Almost Always is for anyone who has ever wondered whether some people are meant to stay in our lives—or whether their purpose was simply to help us become someone new.

About the Author

Shravani Mandhari is a fiction writer whose storytelling explores love, friendship, relationships, emotional vulnerability and the complicated ways people grow through their experiences. In Almost Always, she brings together romance, heartbreak, humour, friendship and self-discovery through the voice of Tara Kaur.