I loved her first. She married him anyway. Ten years later, she showed up at my door, broken, betrayed, begging for help to leave the husband who threw her away. She thinks I'm being kind. Helping an old friend. She doesn't know I've been waiting. She never knew how I loved her. Never knew I watched her wedding from the back of the church. Never knew she was the reason I buried my heart so deep even I forgot where. Now she's back. Vulnerable. Trusting. Asking the one man who never stopped wanting her to help her walk away from someone else. This time? I'm not letting her go.

She was never loved. Not by the world. Not even by her own father the man who tried to sell her when she was only seven. Growing up unwanted, she stopped asking for fairy tales. She stopped believing in miracles. All she ever wanted was simple to be chosen. To be kept. To be loved just once in her life. So when marriage came, she thought maybe this was it. Maybe this was her escape from a childhood filled with betrayal. Maybe her husband would finally see her worth. But she didn't know the truth. The man she married wasn't looking for love. He was looking for revenge. Haunted by the death of his parents, he vowed to destroy the man responsible. And when fate placed the daughter of his enemy in his hands, he made a promise she would suffer for her father's sins. To her, he was hope. To him, she was punishment. In a marriage built on revenge and innocence, can love survive? Or will hatred burn everything before it even begins?

When Alaia married the billionaire, Agastya Singhania, she was okay to be stepped in a loveless marriage. She knew from the start that she'd always be the Unloved Bride but then what about the soft corner that she's going to develop for her husband? Will she ever be loved even if she loves him with all her heart? Will she ever be enough? How can she be okay with the fact that her husband is still in love with his girlfriend who's dead?

Forced into an engagement with a man she doesn't love, Reyna must ignore her bond with her father's general in order to avoid a war and save her throne. ***** As the first female heir to one of the great Northern Kingdoms, Reyna panics when her claim to the throne is threatened by the discovery that her father's general is her soulbound partner. She forces herself to ignore their connection, determined to be more than a general's wife, only for her father to manipulate her into a political engagement with a man she could never love. So to forge her own path forward, keep her throne, and confront her feelings for the general who owns her heart, Reyna must find a way to refuse this arranged marriage without destroying her kingdom in the process. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] ---------- Cover designed by Ren Tachibana

~ Dangerous Life Ahead ~ • Book 2 of LIFE OF PANCHALI TRILOGY • Panchali Rathore, Ex- CEO of Rathore Industries, now the Crown Princess of Hastinapur, 'forcefully' married to the mighty heroes of The Dvāpar Era, The Pandavas. The cold, cruel, dominating lady, who always knew to 'turn the tables', who is a perfectly perfectionist, failed to stop her imperfect marriage. She failed to protect her own life... She failed, She failed and She failed. Yes, The Panchali Rathore failed !!! Now, she only seeks Revenge - a very dangerous thing, a emotion, a feeling which can block one's positive thinking process. "I will destroy you all in a most beautiful way possible, and when I leave, you will finally understand why storms are named after people." ~ Crown Princess Panchali ~~~~~ The Pandavas, the mighty heroes, the all powerful men in the world are married to the one lady, whom they unconsciously loved, from the time they heard about her. They are still yet to understand their own feelings. It is said that they are destined to marry the Panchal Princess and it happened. But against the wish of their only bride. She doesn't accept them as her husbands.She hates them !! And it hurts. It hurts to see the hatred in her eyes. "Loving you is like staying inside the storm. In the end, we can only come out broken, twisted and shattered." ~ The Pandavas ~~~~~ People come and go in our lives. Some make everlasting memories while some leaves everlasting scars behind. When nightmares becomes reality, it creates destruction. Shadows from the past comes to hunt. "They've promised that dreams comes true but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams too." ~~~~~ On one side, Panchali is out for revenge for ruining her life and the Pandavas only looks up to her, only to receive some warm words, if not love. On the other side, 'conspiracy' takes place !! Their life won't be a bed of roses, rather it will be a path of thorns.