BOOK 2 OF #HOPE SERIES I opened the door and bam- There was a man standing there only in his track pants, his broad back facing me. My brain short-circuited for a second. "AAAHHHH!" I screeched, instantly squeezing my eyes shut in panic. He spun around instantly, his deep voice cutting through the air. "Shut up! Why are you shouting?" I froze, my heart doing jumping jacks. His voice-ugh!!! heavy, cold, and kind of... criminally attractive. Slowly, I peeked my eyes open and holy moly! Who is this walking beauty? That face could start wars. "Wh-who are you?" I spluttered, still gluing my eyes to his face like an idiot. "I'm Bhuvan's dad! Who are you?" he barked with a frown. My jaw almost hit the floor. "Dad?" I muttered under my breath. And then the most insane thought slipped into my head, 'At the end, am I really going to end up getting a crush on my father-in-law?' (of course not in a romantic way though...)

BOOK 1 OF #HOPE SERIES Ahana, a girl who longed for nothing but love. Deprived of it by the very people meant to give it, she ventured into the world searching for the warmth she was denied, only to end up meeting with betrayal and ruin. Aastik - A mercilessly tycon by day and the darkest nightmare in someone's life by night. A man who found peace in the shadows because LOVE was a luxury he was never meant to have. Love was something they never believed in. He never searched for it, and she never trusted it. But life had its own plans... they didn't know what was written in their fate. In her eyes, he found a kind of peace he didn't know he needed. In his presence, she felt safe and seen, maybe for the first time. They weren't looking for love, yet it found them anyway. But healing isn't that easy, right? Sometimes scars run too deep to face and trauma has a way of coming back when you least expect it. Will their love be enough to hold them together or will their past tear them away?