COMPLETED ON STCK #The guards series: book 1 Karikalan was born with nothing but a name and a fire in his soul. Betrayed by fate, hardened by loss, he clawed his way up from the dirt to become the right hand of Dhananjay Raghav Thevar. Feared. Respected. Untouchable. His past was buried beneath blood and loyalty... until she came along. Mayuri. The boss's ignored daughter. Off-limits in every possible way. At nineteen, Mayuri was a whirlwind of defiance and curiosity, untouched by the darkness Karikalan had long embraced. When she was assigned a bodyguard, she got him... a man who met her fire with ice, who challenged her at every turn, who never once saw her as anything more than a nuisance. She fell first. Hard. But Karikalan? He refused to fall at all. Their relationship was a war... tempestuous, reckless, forbidden. She was a line he couldn't cross, and he was a battle she refused to lose. Yet, in a world where power dictated love and loyalty came at a price, some lines weren't just dangerous. They were deadly.

Updates on every Sunday #The guards series: book 2 He took her father's life. Now, she's taking his soul. ​Ashok was the perfect soldier. A loyal shadow for the Dhananjay crime family, he lived by a simple code... obey every order, no matter how bloody. But when a brutal gang war breaks out, Ashok crosses the ultimate line... he kills the head of a rival syndicate to protect his own. ​Krithi was the princess of that empire, but now she is a target. To claim her inheritance and survive the vultures circling her throne, her father's will leaves her with one impossible condition... She must marry. Betrayed by her boyfriend and uncle was left with no one to trust, Krithi makes a move that shocks the underworld. She demands to marry her father's killer. In a house built on secrets and blood, a dangerous game begins. He's playing for her protection; she's playing for revenge. But in the underworld, the only thing more dangerous than hate... is a love that wasn't supposed to exist.