A bottle of pickle, a jar of apricot jam, and a clump of stinging
nettle-perfect ingredients for romance in sleepy Mukteshwar.
Forty-year-old divorcee Nandini is something of an oddity in the Himalayan

small town of Mukteshwar where she has come to settle with her absent-
minded birdwatcher father. Fiercely independent, strong-willed-she's a

woman you can't take for a ride, which is how she has turned a homegrown
pickle-making business into a successful women's co-operative.
When she encounters the newcomer Vikas Joshi, who has recently acquired
an apricot orchard, sparks being to fly as a series of mishaps bring them
together. It doesn't look like this shy, gentle widower and the feisty pickle
producer are made for each other. But destiny deems otherwise, with a little
help from the villagers-and a mysterious jar of apricot jam.
Played out against the backdrop of the Kumaon Hills, across wooded
mountains and apricot orchards, For the Love of Apricots is a quietly romantic,
humorous story about a seemingly headstrong yet vulnerable heroine and
a lonely man who realize, before it's too late, that love deserves a second
chance.
Warm and light-hearted, yet sensitive and with an understanding of human
nature at its core, this is a book to celebrate love in all its unpredictable ways.