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REVIEWED BY DEBS CARR 
Yasmin Yusuf has her life planned out and knows what she wants. Racing off to meet her boyfriend for a meal on the evening she’s sure he’s going to propose, she rushes her work and makes a damning mistake on the report her handsome boss, Zachary Khan has asked her to prepare for an important meeting. Zach fires her the following day. Yasmin goes into melt down and tearfully tells him that her expected engagement never happened. As she can’t bear to lose her job as well as her boyfriend, she pleads with him to give her another chance. Unable to do so, he tells her to take a week off and arranges for her to be transferred to another branch of the firm.
Still living at home with her widowed father, Yasmin determines not to cause him any unnecessary concern and does her best to pretend everything is fine. Despite being devastated by the change in her circumstances, she also doesn’t need the extra worry of her protective older brothers finding out what her ex-boyfriend, Sam has done to her as she’s sure they’ll want to find him and take revenge. She starts her new job, but ends up at the mercy of Hannah Gibbs-Smythson, a no nonsense woman who does not intend making Yasmin welcome in any way.
Yasmin is seen as easy prey by several of her new colleagues and is soon duped into carrying out research that was intended to humiliate her. She is given the job of restoring the fortunes of a lingerie company and gets to know the young woman in charge and has every intention of doing all she can to help find a way to make the lacklustre business thrive once again. When Yasmin falls out with her closest friends over a misunderstanding, she jumps at the chance of joining several members of her team on a two week working trip to Dubai. It’s while she’s there that things come to a head and Yasmin discovers that everything is not all it seems both at work and with the cool, but dashing, Zachary Khan.
This was a lovely story. I enjoyed reading about Yasmin’s difficulties trying to conform within the expectations of her Bengali family, whilst at the same time working in a cut-throat industry. The relationship between Yasmin and her father was beautifully depicted, as were her determination for success despite the odds and her attraction for a man she knows she can’t possibly have.
I’ll definitely be looking out for Rekha Waheed’s previous book too. 8/10