DISCLAIMER: Tagged romance for romantic sub plots. The main plot is suspense and dark contemporary. RANKED #15 in Dark Academia (Last week of Jan 2026) Four strangers: an artist mastermind, a sharp-tongued rebel, a studious overachiever, and a new girl trying to find her place. In the chaotic battlefield of high school, their lives are about to collide. Sabotaged projects, malicious rumours, hidden truths. Each girl finds herself at the eye of the chaos she can't contain alone. Thrown together by circumstance and bound by something deeper, they make a discovery: the strongest friendships are forged not in kindness, but in crisis. Set in 2014, All the Secrets We Meet is a collection of origin stories of four lives intertwined. This is where it all begins. Not with a promise, but with a secret. The first book in the 'All the Secrets...' world Marked Mature for themes like sexual coercion.

| 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 | Akanksha, a forensic expert and her husband Vihaan, a CBI officer must work together through the gulf in their marriage to catch a serial killer threatening to expose their secrets. ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ When Akanksha returns to Jaipur for her best friend's wedding, she anticipates nothing out of the ordinary. The pre-wedding rituals remind her bitterly of her dream to marry for love and she dreads returning home to the brewing argument with her husband of seven years, Vihaan. But when a series of murders come knocking at Akanksha's door, she realises she cannot solve it alone. After avoiding each other like plague for years, she and Vihaan must put aside their differences and learn to work together to capture this serial killer. However, the nightmares of Akanksha's past are difficult to deny. Will the hunt for the murderer bring her and Vihaan closer together or are the secrets in their relationship too deep to ever find peace? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Trigger/Content Warning: Elements of PTSD, anxiety, violence, abuse, death, mental health issues, mention of sexual abuse and rape, and other triggering issues. Please read only if you're comfortable reading these themes and the story is marked to be MATURE. ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Featured By @Romance, @dangerouslove, @WattpadRomanceIN, @ContemporaryLit, @generalfiction, @WattpadChicklitIN and @MysteryThrillerIN | This amazing cover is made by @NattKuznetsov © akiimarvelous 2020 Exclusively On Wattpad

"Who are you?" I spoke in the dark as my eyes caught another movement behind the curtain, on the sill, my usual reading spot. "How can you not recognize me, Krisha? I'm offended." I halted, my hands which held the stick froze mid-way and I lowered it. Narrowing my gaze where I got the response after calling out more than five times, I reached back to switch on the light. "Don't" The voice stopped me. And before I could scram out of the room, the curtains flew aside and a shadow came to my view. Scratch that, a body rose, almost double my height as he got down the sill and stood at a distance. I blinked a few times to adjust to the daylight and focus on his face. I froze as I took in his appearance. 𝘕𝘰. 𝘕𝘰. 𝘕𝘰. 𝘕𝘰. I just- He laughed. No. 𝘏𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥. He tilted his head, his gaze unwaveringly staring down my figure before locking into my eyes. My breath hitched when he came near me but still wasn't invading my space. "What's it? Didn't you want me coming to life? Isn't that what you dreamt of, talked of and thought of? I am here." He opened his arms wide. No this can't possibly be- ---