ONCE AND FOR ALL
i Jan 11, 2024 Release!

“Downton Abbey meets Sleeping with the Enemy but set in India!”βBarbara Bos, Managing Editor, BooksByWomen.org
“I couldn’t pull away from this book… the ending was not only pulse pounding but a complete shock…and I’m so excited for book 3.”–Bookstgrammer, -all_books_great_and_small
AWARDS AND HONORS
Winner β 2025 Independent Author Awards, Asian American Fiction
Winner β 2025 Independent Author Awards, Womenβs Issues
Finalist – 2025 Independent Author Awards, Multi-cultural fiction
Finalist – 2025 Independent Author Awards, Womenβs Fiction
Finalist – 2025 Independent Author Awards, Relationships
Finalist – 2025 Independent Author Awards, Parenting and Family
Finalist – 2025 Independent Author Awards, Marriage
Amazon #1 New Release β 2024 Asian Dramas & Plays
Amazon #1 New Release β 2024 Asian Literature
Finalist β 2024 International Book Awards
Finalist β 2024 National Indie Excellence Awards
Shortlist β 2025 Hawthorne Prize
Finalist β 2024 International Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation, Official Pick
Once And For All Ranks #1 Amazon New Release across several categories!
What would you do if your life was a web of lies?
Thirty-two-year-old celebrity, Sheetal Dhanraj, is married to millionaire Rakesh Dhanraj andΒ mother to their eight-year-old son. The women of Raigun, India, envy Sheetalβs good fortune and ability to balance career, marriage, motherhood and uphold Indian values to perfection.
However, behind the closed doors of the marble Dhanraj palace Sheetal yearns for love but is trapped in an abusive and unfaithful marriage. A pawn in the Dhanrajβs web of deceit, Sheetal denies the silent suffering like a good Indian wife because her reputation is tied to her husbandβs. Then a chance-meeting with her former college sweetheart shatters Sheetalβs world and her faith. Her marriage overturns. Her sonβs life is in jeopardy. In a race against time, Sheetal and her son must escape the Dhanrajβs tyranny or forever be imprisoned in games of fate and death.
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βAnju’s phenomenalΒ Winds of Fire Series returns with Once And For All, and this time, it’s Downton Abbey meets Sleeping with the Enemy but set in India! I tore through the pages. Anju’s sublime prose creates a truly visceral reading experience,Β making India come alive with all its sights,Β smells, and sounds. And the story itself…you better strap in and prepare because you’re in for an unforgettable ride!ββBarbara Bos, Managing Editor, BooksByWomen.org
“In Anju Gattani’s Once And For All, the reader is taken on a remarkable journey through custom and culture as one woman risks it all for the sake of love. A beautifully written tale of sacrifice and longing that will captivate readers until the very end. Gattani writes with her whole heart.”βRochelle B. Weinstein, Bestselling author of This Is Not How It Ends
βWith a richly evoked sense of place and culture, the series is a deeply engrossing depiction of one womanβs struggle for love and independence. It will keep you turning pages until the end.β β Ausma Zehanat Khan, author of A Deadly Divide
βA story rich in cultural detail and complete with the lush language and intense chemistry between characters that readers have come to expect from Anju Gattani. Once And For AllΒ spiralsΒ an emotionally abusive relationship to a level of self-destruction that you willΒ neverΒ forget.β β Barbara Conrey, USA Today bestselling author of Nowhere Near Goodbye
βInΒ Once And For All, Anju Gattani weaves a dynamic sequel to her debut novel,Β Dynasties,Β in herΒ Winds of FireΒ series. Main character Sheetal has it all, but at what price? The author deftly reveals the opulent lifestyle of the upper echelon of Indian society, but it is tempered with an undercurrent of painful secrets.Β What a page-turning read!“βBobbi Kornblit, author ofΒ Red Carpet RivalsΒ andΒ Shelter from the Texas Heat
“Five Diamonds in the Pulpwood Queen TIARA, my highest mark!”βThe International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation.