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THE NIGHT OF THE STORM
A Novel
A fresh take on the classic locked room thriller that follows a multi-generational Indian American family who find themselves marooned in the house with a murderer during Hurricane Harvey.
Hurricane Harvey is descending on Houston. Meanwhile, thirty-something single mom Jia Shah and her son Ishaan are having a week. The twelve-year-old has been on suspension from his new school for striking a classmate and Jia is worried that their move to Houston and her divorce from Ishaan's father is negatively impacting him. And doesn't a boy need a father?
Now there's a mandatory evacuation in their neighborhood. They pack up to ride out Harvey in Houston's tony suburb Sugarland, where Jia's sister Seema lives with her husband and toddler. The only problem? Seema's arrogant husband, Vipul, has started blowing up her phone with cheesy love poems that will soon escalate to a mortifying photo. But to ensure her son's safety from the storm Jia must steel herself and go. After all, her philandering ex back in Chicago is all too eager for Jia to make a misstep so he can snatch back custody.
Vipul's brother and sister-in-law also show up to take refuge in Sugarland. Tensions rise as quickly as the flood waters as Grandma, the family matriarch, plays favorites among her sons and their wives. The family can't seem to stop bickering and then a neighbor reeking of alcohol knocks on the door. A few hours and two dead bodies later, Jia becomes the prime suspect. Marooned in the house with a murderer, with no help available until the waters recede in the morning, Jia must protect her son and identify the real culprit before she goes down for a crime she didn't commitor becomes the next victim.
Nishita Parekh immigrated to the U.S. from Mumbai in her teens and now resides in Texas with her family. She is a software programmer but a writer at heart. She is an active member of Crime Writers of Color, Sisters of Crime, a #RevPit contest winner, and loves writing about her experiences as a woman and immigrant. THE NIGHT OF THE STORM is her first novel.
Now there's a mandatory evacuation in their neighborhood. They pack up to ride out Harvey in Houston's tony suburb Sugarland, where Jia's sister Seema lives with her husband and toddler. The only problem? Seema's arrogant husband, Vipul, has started blowing up her phone with cheesy love poems that will soon escalate to a mortifying photo. But to ensure her son's safety from the storm Jia must steel herself and go. After all, her philandering ex back in Chicago is all too eager for Jia to make a misstep so he can snatch back custody.
Vipul's brother and sister-in-law also show up to take refuge in Sugarland. Tensions rise as quickly as the flood waters as Grandma, the family matriarch, plays favorites among her sons and their wives. The family can't seem to stop bickering and then a neighbor reeking of alcohol knocks on the door. A few hours and two dead bodies later, Jia becomes the prime suspect. Marooned in the house with a murderer, with no help available until the waters recede in the morning, Jia must protect her son and identify the real culprit before she goes down for a crime she didn't commitor becomes the next victim.
Nishita Parekh immigrated to the U.S. from Mumbai in her teens and now resides in Texas with her family. She is a software programmer but a writer at heart. She is an active member of Crime Writers of Color, Sisters of Crime, a #RevPit contest winner, and loves writing about her experiences as a woman and immigrant. THE NIGHT OF THE STORM is her first novel.
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