BOOK 1 OF THE "BRIDE SERIES" AGASTYA X YUVIKA She was abandoned at the altar. He was never meant to be the groom. One moment changed everything when Agastya Raichand stepped forward and married Yuvika Mathur to save her from humiliation. Cold, powerful, and dangerously unreadable, Agastya was a man feared by many and understood by none. Love had never been part of his world. Yuvika, on the other hand, was softness wrapped in silence - gentle hearts, trembling hopes, and shattered dreams hidden behind graceful smiles. Forced into a marriage neither of them expected, she enters the Raichand mansion as a stranger... and as his wife. Between whispered taunts, family politics, painful misunderstandings, and hearts too guarded to trust, their marriage becomes a battlefield of emotions. Agastya's possessiveness clashes with Yuvika's quiet strength, while destiny keeps pulling them closer in ways neither can resist. He married her out of responsibility. She stayed without demanding love. But somewhere between late-night silences, unspoken protection, lingering touches, and a bond neither of them saw coming... they begin falling for each other. Slowly. Painfully. Irrevocably. Because sometimes the most beautiful love stories begin not with choice- but with fate.