A Mahabharat story. What is love, if not duty?

Bhanumati's tale spoken like a memoir to her children. To remind them that, despite what the world says, their father was a good man, somewhere in him, he was a good man. The forgotten queen of Mahabharatha. Duryodhana's wife. The tragedy of being the villain's love. ******** The world will call your father the villain, and I will not stop them. Let them. The stories are not false, and I have no wish to cleanse his sins with my tears. But this my children, I write this for you to know that the man Ved Vyaasa wrote of was not the man I loved. My life has been endlessly filled with jasmines, beautiful, fragrant and fated to wilt.

Kalyani was never anyone's first choice. At eighteen, in Mumbai that has already quietly decided her worth, she is given to a man who does not want a wife - only someone to fill the silence his grief left behind. Set in 1840s Maharashtra, this is the story of a woman who asked for nothing, was promised nothing, and still found ways to love - a house that wasn't hers, children that weren't hers, a life that was never quite hers. The question is not whether Kalyani endures. It is what endurance costs a person. And whether anyone will notice before the price becomes too high.

Margaret Harrington is a coward. She's afraid of speaking up in class. She's afraid of making friends with the cool art kid in her history class. She's afraid of what happens if she breaks her parents rules. No boys, no sleepovers, no leaving the house. Most important of all: no telling anyone what happens if she breaks the rules. And unfortunately for her, Steve is just as scared of their parents. But what happens when her friends help her learn that she doesn't need to be afraid? That her parents rules aren't normal? Can the divide between her and her brother be fixed? (Used to be a one shot with Y/N but is now a full story!)

This story is not for everyone. Not every marriage hides a gentle love story. Not every man is a hero. And not every girl is born brave enough to fight back. Some girls are raised to stay silent - taught to obey, to endure, to sacrifice. Their fear becomes their cage, their hesitation the reason they lose pieces of themselves little by little. And some men grow up believing power is love, dominance is care, and a wife exists only to surrender. This is not a fairytale. No prince is waiting at the end. Bound by an unexpected marriage to a man eight years older than her - a man once meant to become her brother-in-law - she is forced into the lavish yet suffocating world of the ruthless CEO of Acharya Industrialisation Pvt. Ltd. A man worshipped by society, feared by his employees, and shaped by a royal family where husbands are treated like gods and women are expected to kneel without question. He does not believe in love. He believes in possession. What begins as innocent hope slowly turns into quiet horror. Every gesture she once mistook for affection reveals something far darker beneath it. Her dream of a normal marriage dies a little more each day, until all she longs for is a single moment to breathe without fear. And him? He is not written to be redeemed easily. This story carries fragments of reality - the truths many women still live through behind closed doors, hidden beneath wealth, status, and perfect family names. It is cruel, emotional, uncomfortable, and painfully human. So read at your own risk. Because some stories are not meant to comfort you. Some are meant to haunt you.

Vagmi, a simple girl in the royal household of Panchal finds herself tangled between the webs of love and hatred of two men, unable to keep up with the imbalances of her life. And things get worse when she finds the thin line between love and hate blurring, leaving her in a mess of her own feelings. Let's see if she can get past the conflicts of her heart and realise where her destiny truly lies. . . . . 'There is a very fine line between love and hatred and people would do anything for both.'

Varsha, the youngest Kaurava sister, falls in love with the immortal Ashwathama. Will their love stand a chance against the cruelty of destiny? Or will she have to give up on her love? Read to find out about Varsha's experience to love an immortal.

In 1894, Rosalia Goth and her younger brother, Arthur, are the wards of their wealthy uncle, Mr. Weber, and his wife, after the untimely death of their father. Rosalia leads a quiet but comfortable life with her aunt and uncle and their two daughters in Kansas City, Missouri. However, there is one family member that remains elusive, her eldest cousin, Richard. Away at college since before her arrival, he returns home upon completion of his education. He soon becomes infatuated with the young and beautiful, Rosalia. His obsession with her knows no bounds, as his cousin she was born to belong to him, to be his beloved rose.

She'd expected to possibly give her life to this war, she'd even prepared for the reality that they might lose the war. But the one thing Hermione Granger never prepared for was to be thrown back in time just before the fateful night of the Potters' death. When the wizarding war takes a dark turn, Hermione Granger is thrown back into the past. Straight to Potter Cottage in Godric's Hollow on October 23, 1981. Now she has the chance to change everything for the better, even if it means erasing her childhood and writing her friends out of her life. But when her presence alters the timeline, she has to prove to the Order the truth of her future. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭 ✓ August 2020 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬 ✓ December 2020 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐄𝐫𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 [In Progress] 🐾 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤 #1 fanfiction/1.1M! #10 romance/1.4M! #1 siriusblack #1 hermione #1 marauders #2 timetravel #1 harrypotter 🥇 1st PLACE in Marauder's Era @ Seeker Awards 2019 🥇 1st PLACE in Marauder's Era @ Hogwarts Student Council Writing Contest 🐾 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 • Hermione Granger • Sirius Black • James Potter • Lily Potter • Remus Lupin • Fabian Prewett • Gideon Prewett • Severus Snape 🐾 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐑: • I do not own HP or the Wizarding World, I just like to dabble for fun.