Nivashni Nair Sukdhev is a former award-winning journalist for the Sunday Times and the author of What’s on My Mind? Making Babies, a memoir about her triumph over infertility. She ventured into romance fiction with her debut in February 2022 and has since written four romance novels. Nair Sukdhev is a proud mother and wife, a devoted bibliophile and an unrepentant lover of shoes. Pillow Talk (2025) is the first of a series set in the fictional town of Rally in KwaZulu-Natal from the new queen of South African romance.