At Cousins Beach, sixteen-year-old Kaylee Rivers isn't looking for love - just flings, fun, and freedom. But when she hooks up with the one boy she swore she'd never fall for - quiet, complicated Conrad Fisher - everything changes. In a summer filled with secrets, jealousy, and unexpected feelings, Kaylee must decide if she's ready to let someone in... or risk losing the only person who ever saw the real her.

Maanvi is twenty-eight, a government school teacher who believes in routine, restraint, and staying unnoticed. She lives with her in-laws, follows the rules, and keeps her thoughts to herself. Her life is quiet by design. Safe. Predictable. Until it isn't. Digvijay Sahay is thirty-two and impossible to define. No one knows what he does, where he comes from, or what he's running from. He appears without explanation, disappears without warning, and leaves questions behind like footprints no one can trace. Their meeting is accidental. Their connection is not. As secrets surface and danger closes in, Maanvi is forced out of the careful life she built, while Digvijay is dragged toward the one thing he never planned on protecting. Lies blur into truth, attraction turns risky, and survival starts demanding choices neither of them is ready to make. Dark, intense, and threaded with unexpected humor, this is a romantic suspense thriller about quiet strength, dangerous secrets, and what happens when a woman who has learned to endure collides with a man who has learned to disappear. Some stories begin with love. Theirs begins with a mistake.

'The way everything seems so wrong, but so right. Was it when you promised me you will be back? Or was it the war that you never thought you will come back alive? I longed for you, mourned for you and prayed for you. How many deaths have you saw before you met me? Because this war will never end, same goes to my love for you.' With love and war in between, she hoped he will be with her again, safe and sound in her arms forever.