Chetna Pandey

Chetna Pandey writes contemporary Indian romance about desire, intimacy and the complicated territory between knowing what we should want and discovering what we actually do.

Her stories are interested in adult women with full lives of their own, relationships built on chemistry as much as emotion, and characters allowed to be sensual, contradictory, funny and imperfect without being punished for it.

She is particularly drawn to the moments when attraction disrupts carefully organised lives, when physical intimacy becomes unexpectedly revealing, and when pleasure forces people to confront truths they might otherwise have preferred to leave comfortably untouched.

In Appetite, those interests meet in Goa through Kritika Chopra and Rayan D’Mello, where food, work, sex and emotional hunger begin colliding with increasingly inconvenient consequences.

Chetna Pandey writes for readers who enjoy contemporary romance with grown-up characters, unapologetic sensuality, emotional intimacy and enough heat to leave fingerprints on the page.