hauntedcat
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"𝑰 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖"
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In 1905, India lived under British rule. Power belonged to men in uniform. Fear belonged to everyone else.
Girls were married young. Sometimes before they understood what marriage meant. Sometimes before they had even learned how to say no.
She was seventeen when her fate was decided.
She had grown up hearing that British officers brought only trouble. That their boots crushed villages and their orders decided lives. She was taught to lower her eyes when they passed and to stay out of their way.
He was raised to believe that India needed control. That order mattered more than mercy. That a uniform gave him the right to command and be obeyed.
They were never meant to meet.
But when she is married to a British colonel in a mandap that was never meant for him, her life is torn away from everything she knows. faith, her family, her world.
Their marriage is not born from love.
It is born from power, fear, and a system that never cared what a girl wanted.
She is a Indian girl raised in pain and silence.
He is a British officer trained to rule and never look back.
She belongs to a land he serves.
He belongs to an Empire that owns her country.
She shouldn't trust him.
He shouldn't want her.
But in an India divided by power and silence, they became each other's only moment of truth.
A slow, aching romance set in the early 1900s ,where a British Colonel and an Indian girl fight a world that was never built to let them stand together.
● Desi × Videsi historical romance
● Slow-burn, tension, culture, and restraint
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