Incense and Sensibility

<p><strong><em>Incense and </em>Sensibility is a tender well-crafted novel as much about finding purpose as it is about falling in love. Dev writes with such rare empathy and humor that I often found myself holding my breath on one page only to be giggling by the next. This is the kind of book you finish with a whole-body happy sigh and a warm ache in your chest where the characters will live on. Yash and India's story will stick with me for a long time.</strong>-- <strong>Emily Henry <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Beach Read</em></strong></p><p>Yash Raje California's first Indian-American gubernatorial candidate has always known exactly what he wants--and how to use his privileged background to get it. He attributes his success to a simple mantra: control your feelings and you can control the world. But when a hate crime at a rally critically injures his friend Yash's easy life suddenly feels like a lie his control an illusion. When he tries to get back on the campaign trail he blacks out with panic.</p><p>Desperate to keep Yash's condition from leaking to the media his family turns to the one person they trust--his sister's best friend India Dashwood California's foremost stress management coach. Raised by a family of yoga teachers India has helped San Francisco's high strung overachievers for a decade without so much as altering her breath. But this man--with his boundless ambition simmering intensity and absolute faith in his political beliefs--is like no other.</p><p>Yash has spent a lifetime repressing everything to succeed including their one magical night ten years ago--a too brief too bright passion that if rekindled threatens to destroy the dream he's willingly shouldered for his family and community . . . until now.</p><br/>