Shoma Narayanan hadn’t written much till she won a short story contest held by a Mumbai newspaper some years back. Even then, this Bengali banker, who grew up in Madhya Pradesh, reading Dickens, Shaw, Poe and generally serious stuff, never imagined she would one day write mushy romantic novels for the world’s largest publishers of, well, mush.

Banker Shoma Narayanan, an electronics engineer with an MBA from XLRI, says her novels have a realistic setting and target young urban adults