Shahzad Rizvi

• Sep-2021
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The fortunes of an Indian princess are upended in New York City. Two strangers on a cruise discover the shocking truth of their intertwined past. A sudden windfall attracts a glamorous grifter. These new stories from Shahzad Rizvi brim with romance, ...

• Feb-2013
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Arsalan, a Pakistani student, wins a chance to be educated in Cold War-era America. He begins a rise to the very top of the US foreign policy establishment-- the National Security Council. Two beautiful women are strangely eager to help him, and insi...

• Feb-2013
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This historical novel, set in Washington, Moscow, and Pakistan in the 1980's, imagines a Soviet attempt to install a puppet government in Pakistan in the last years of the Cold War. Two related stories unfold side by side. The first is the seducti...

• Feb-2013
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British diplomat Nigel adores India and its culture, but not his spoiled wife, Pamela. Instead, he has fallen hopelessly in love with Mehru, a married Muslim princess. When Pamela is murdered, Nigel is imprisoned as the prime suspect, but did he do i...

• Jan-2013
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Sami Ullah, an Indian executive, feels mysteriously drawn to the ruined mansion. But his move to Purfiza plunges him into a complex political mess outside his doors, and a bewitching romance within. A beautiful shape-shifting ghost claims him as her ...

• Jul-2012
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When a Mafia princess is found dead in her dorm room, her roommate Sabby, the daughter of Pakistani immigrants, is arrested for the murder. Both girls were rivals for the love of the same handsome student. And why is Sabby so fascinated with poisons?...

• May-2012
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Jemi is one of the last people evacuated from Earth before its final ecological catastrophe. As she attempts to adapt to life in a refugee colony on Mars, and finds herself falling for a Martian, she faces hard questions. How can she remain faithful ...

• Feb-2012
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Two small-town girls, lifelong friends, make it to the top in Washington, D.C., each in her own way. Gentle, conscientious Minnie finds love, while ambitious, scheming Maxie's relentless pursuit of wealth and power attracts two powerful men: a graspi...

• Jan-2012
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Woman with a CurveAuthor Shahzad Rizvi, an Indian writer long-residing in theWashington area, skewers politics in the nation's capital in his satire, Woman with a Curve. A former White Houseinterpreter and veteran of the civ...

• Dec-2011
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Sami Ullah, an Indian executive, feels mysteriously drawn to the ruined mansion, but his move to Purfiza plunges him into a complex political mess outside his doors, and a bewitching romance within. A beautiful shape-shifting ghost claims him as her ...

• May-2011
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Five fairy tales of India for children. A boy who dreamed of flying gets his wish in a most astonishing way. A child lost in an earthquake turns up in a jungle Eden. When a boy befriends a crocodile, the two overcome their neighbors' dread with an ac...

• Apr-2011
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Five fairy tales of India for children. A boy who dreamed of flying gets his wish in a most astonishing way. A child lost in an earthquake turns up in a jungle Eden. When a boy befriends a crocodile, the two overcome their neighbors' dread with an ac...

• Apr-2011
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Five fairy tales of India for children. A boy who dreamed of flying gets his wish in a most astonishing way. A child lost in an earthquake turns up in a jungle Eden. When a boy befriends a crocodile, the two overcome their neighbors' dread wi...

• Feb-2011
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This lively collection of stories, set in America and India, explores love, loss, and the muddle between the two. In the title story, a student falls in love with a mysterious neighbor who'd be perfect... if she weren't dead. In "Rage," an actor disc...

• Jan-2011
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A spirited Indian woman falls in love with a writer she's never met, refusing all other suitors. When he appears, he's nothing like she'd dreamed. Her life with him is hell; his vanity and treachery nearly destroy her. She begins an affair with a han...

• Jan-2011
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.      The Last Resident: The Love Story of British Official and an Indian Princess
In the historical romance The Last Resident, an idealistic British diplomat, Nigel, is on his way to India to take up a colonial ad...

• Jan-2011
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Mayu, a brilliant woman, still somehow can't get her relationships right. Though she's vowed to avoid the fate of her abused mother, she marries a womanizer whose affairs sap her self-confidence. She tries to fill the holes in her heart with one unsa...