The Mistress V

Being the other woman in any culture is the ugliest brand a woman can wear. A mistress. A slut. A whore. Isha Vanora Phillips had worn them all. At twenty-eight, she had lived too much, and not in a way anyone would envy.

Five years ago, she was exiled. Not by choice, but by force. Everything she had ever dreamed of-money, wealth, status-was shoved into her hands like dirty coins to a beggar. In return, she surrendered everything her soul had truly wanted. So she left, carrying the shards of her ruined life like a sinner bearing penance.

But now she returns-simply existing as a force in her own right. Not to reclaim land, not to beg for scraps. She comes to play the billion-dollar industry of fashion like a fiddle, and make it dance to her tune. No longer a sweet summer child chasing after a man. She is a woman building an empire. Let the business world tremble. Let the fashion world buzz.

Because Isha Vanora Phillips is back. And her mere existence is enough to unravel the fragile stability of Agastya Rai Singhani-the man who thought he had buried her along with the past.