The Bratva's Forbidden Flame is a dark, obsessive romance between fire and frost-between innocence and bloodlust. When Kaveri Sharma, a sharp-tongued but gentle-hearted Indian historian, arrives in St. Petersburg for a prestigious fellowship, she steps into a world far more sinister than academia. Behind ancient Gothic walls lies a cursed legacy and a man who rules it all. Vladislav Valeryan-the Blood King of Russia's underworld. A brutal, calculating mafia Pakhan known only by fear and violence. But even he wasn't prepared for the chaos that was Kaveri. Her eyes are his sin, her defiance his addiction. She doesn't know his name, only his power. And he doesn't care about her world, only how to make her his. But fate isn't kind to lovers born of war and blood. Secrets lurk in the shadows, vendettas burn deep, and the forbidden always costs the most. A tale of power, passion, and peril-where the forbidden becomes inevitable. And love? Love is the most dangerous game of all.

🏅 No: 1 - In Mafia BL [04/25/2026] 🥇 No: 1 - Action Thriller [ 04/24/2026] An epic love story between two mafia leaders, highlighting the battle of blood, love, obsession, family, power, and control. Italian + Indian (Boy X Boy) BL! 3 Couples: - Simon + Shivansh (Both are gangsters) - Dr. Vikram + Arnav (Doctor and Prince) - Oliver + Muna ( Assassin + Bodyguard) ______________________________________________ Instagram: @divya_twinklingtales for videos and spoilers. ******************************************************** Dark romance Touch him and die Second chance Action-Thriller Suspense Mafia Royalty Humor Violence Obsession Mystery You are mine... Mature content and languagess!

Luca Volkov x Khushi Agrahari Healed Hearts Series: Book 1 Can be read as standalone Luca Volkov, a twenty nine year old ceo of The Volkov Group and an international mafia leader-feared by criminals, untouchable by governments. He is charismatic without effort, intimidating without trying. To himself: He is a man who cannot be redeemed-but will burn down the rot around him. Khushi Agrahari, a twenty three year normal master student of design. She is pure, kind-hearted, deeply compassionate. She cries silently, but laughs and smiles publicly-no one knows her real struggles. She has strict but loving parents and a brother who is three years younger than her. She often suppresses her desires or emotions to meet expectations. She thinks she is cursed, cursed that whoever she be attached to will leave her. She is the sunshine in a world he thought was only made of blood, shadows, and betrayal. He sees through her mask-and for the first time, so does she. With her, he feels love-something foreign, frightening, and undeniable. She is the only person he cannot read, cannot control-and that makes him want her all the more. Together, they will face betrayal, heartbreak, danger, loyalty-and the kind of love that changes both of them forever. #TOP 1 in brokenfemalelead (26/10/25) #TOP 2 in ruthlessceo (3/11/25) #TOP 1 in videsi (21/07/26) #TOP 8 in hefellfirstandharder (21/11/25) #TOP 1 in desi×videsi (29/11/25) #TOP 2 in ruthlessmafia (1/12/25) #TOP 1 in italian (28/2/26) #TOP 3 in mafialove (26/3/25)

• 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐌𝐂 × 𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐌𝐂 I didn't get distracted. Not by beauty. Not by innocence. And yet, here I was. Watching her. Wanting her. She had no idea that the most dangerous man in Italy had stopped everything just to witness her. I should have driven away. I should have ignored the strange pull in my chest, the hunger curling in my gut. But then she laughed. And I knew I was fucked. Buckle up for a rollercoaster of chaos, comedy, and a whole lot of WTF just happened moments in HBHB-where love isn't just unexpected, it's absolutely ILLEGAL.

The cold press of steel against her forehead was nothing compared to the fire blazing in his eyes. His fingers, calloused and commanding, dug into her waist as though she might vanish if he loosened his grip. Her breath came out in ragged, uneven bursts, but her chin lifted, trembling yet defiant, meeting the monster in front of her head-on. The gun didn't waver, but his eyes did. "Kill me.," she whispered, her voice breaking like glass. Her plea was not born of weakness but of exhaustion - a soul battered too long by a storm she never chose. Tears clung stubbornly to her lashes but didn't fall. She wouldn't give him the satisfaction of seeing her break. For a heartbeat, silence pulsed between them, louder than any gunshot. His thumb brushed against her skin - not gently, but like a warning, a claim. The metal against her forehead was ice; his palm at her waist burned. She closed her eyes, almost welcoming the darkness she thought would follow. But nothing came. No shot. No release. Only his ragged breath, heavy with something she couldn't name. "Say it again," he growled, voice low, dangerous, and rough. Her eyes snapped open, tears flowing like a free river through her eyes, and for the first time she saw it - the crack in his armor. He hated her for asking, hated himself for hesitating. "I said KILL ME. PLEASE just do it," she repeated, louder this time, as though her words could pierce through whatever war was raging inside him. "I-I can't go through this anyy-m-more." And for the first time in his life, the man who never blinked at blood, at screams, at endings, faltered. His finger tightened on the trigger. His grip on her waist tightened too. The world narrowed down to this moment - predator and prey, sin and innocence, violence and something dangerously close to longing.

She left India with a dream. She didn't know she was carrying a promise with her. AADHYA SHARMA She has always fought for her future. Bold, ambitious, and academically brilliant, she earns a fully funded scholarship to LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY - her chance to escape a family that believes a girl's freedom can ruin reputations. But her victory comes with a condition: a promise to her father that could one day cost her everything. Russia is unfamiliar, cold, and unforgiving, so is ARSEN MIKHAIL VOLKOV Quiet, guarded, and impossible to read, Arsen is nothing like the people Aadhya is used to. Their first meetings are filled with sharp words, clashing opinions, and undeniable irritation. They argue. They disagree. They challenge each other at every step. What begins as pure annoyance slowly turns into something neither of them planned or wanted. Between academic pressure, cultural differences, unspoken pasts, and a promise hanging over Aadhya's head, emotions become dangerous territory. Especially when both of them have learned, in different ways, that love is never simple. Set in the heart of Moscow, this is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers story about ambition, resistance, unspoken feelings, and the fine line between control and surrender. Some promises are made to protect dreams. Others exist to destroy them. And neither of them is ready for what this one will cost. ~✿~ # BOOK 1 of series RED & SAFFRON NOTE - This story focuses on emotions, slow burn, and character depth. No explicit smut. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #1 - Wattpadindia (23-02-26) #1 - Romcom (25-02-26) #1 - Softromance (11-03-26)

BOOK 1ST IN "DESTINY SERIES" "Every Dark Deed Masked a shattered heart longing for a love, lost to time" ◇ MASSIMO MORETTI, "32 years, 6'2" ITALIAN MAFIA KING The Beast who learned to feel. "The kind of man who makes silence feels like a warning." It was an obsession that looked like protection. It was love that didn't know how to be gentle, but still tried anyway. A man who knew he loved her before he could believe someone like him was allowed to love someone like her. ♡ SAISHA KHURANA, "24 years, 5'4" INDIAN ASSASSIN The Beauty who was always a devil in disguise. "She wasn't just part of the game. She was controlling it." SURVIVAL? that became part of who she is. A girl who learned that when things break, they can turn sharp. LOVE!? she was never meant to feel, but can't seem to escape from it, no matter how hard or how far she runs. ★ He was the beast who found his beauty. She was the devil who found her match. Neither of them was innocent. Neither of them was safe. Maybe that's exactly why they belong together. The story of two souls who got Tangled with each other, despite their knowing that they are not written in each other's destiny... ▪︎STARTED ON: 14-feb-2025 ▪︎ENDED ON: ___________

(A bollywood musical story) Italian CEO × Desi Girl Enemies to lovers (major trope) #5-Billionairelove-05/08/25 She was never meant to marry him. They weren't poles apart, they were custom apart. Not by distance, but by 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝘆𝗮, of Indian origin, was born and raised in Italy. Her heart beats for chai, not coffee. Her manners were stuck to desi, her traditions rooted in another land. She spoke both Hindi and Italian, but there was still something her parents never told her. A secret she uncovered too late. He hated her. Hated seeing her, hearing her, even speaking to her. The marriage was just an arrangement and nothing more for him. But when his sharp glares turned into lingering stares, he knew something had shifted. She had quietly made a place into his mind and heart. He didn't know what a saree was, or what made chai so special but sitting in the living room with a cup of tea in his hand, watching his wife draped in simple cotton sarees, somehow became his routine. He didn't know what vermilion meant but when he caught himself smiling every time he saw it on her forehead, he realized something different and beautiful at once: He was falling in love. With his wife. With 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝘆𝗮 "𝐇𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨."

Unlucky in the game of love Steal the heart of Italy "Please don't do this to them, please," I said, begging for the first time in my life. "What wrong they did to you?" "Please leave them, please" "Hey love, listen, relax. Ok, I gonna leave them for you. But you have to do something for that." He said stroking my hair back from the face. "What is it?" I asked. "Marry me" Alisha Srivastava, also known as Lisa, is a simple middle-class 18-year-old Indian girl who is currently focusing on her studies. She lives with her family happily. But on her 17th birthday, she decided to celebrate her birthday in Goa with her friends. She was enjoying her day but she felt eyes on her all the time. She thought it was her overthinking, but she realized on her 18th birthday that visiting Goa was her biggest mistake that ruined her peaceful life. Ace King (28), also known as the God of Death on Earth, is an Italian Mafia. Most feared, ruthless, merciless mafia leader ever alive. He owns the world. The world runs on his fingers. He gets what he wants. His eyes land on something that he shouldn't. But now he wants her at any cost. Read to find out what happened. #1 - hislove (19/09/22) #1 - iloveher(13/12/22) #1 - onlyhis (08/04/23) #1 - teasing (01/05/23) #1 - mylife out of 25k+ (26/01/25)

Desperate for a fresh start, Sameera Bhatt leaves Mumbai for Manhattan, hoping to put away memories of the past. A chance encounter with a drunk, unconscious, but handsome stranger stirs something in her she'd never thought to feel again. Assuming a dream position as the new Head of the Projects and Development Department at Silvercorp, she is soon pitched in a constant battle of wills with Ryan Silverton, heir to the Silvercorp riches, disgraced former head of the department, general pain in the ass, and the object of her fantasies for the past year. What's worse, the man doesn't even remember her! For Ryan Silverton, getting rid of the pesky woman hellbent on lording it over him , while trying to fix the mess he'd caused and regain his position as head of department - a position now occupied by the aforementioned pesky woman - should be no problem. As long as he didn't give in to the inexplicable urge to kiss her senseless and have her scream his name in ecstasy, winning should be easy. Except, he gets more than he bargained for when the alluring Sameera Bhatt, proves to be no easy pushover. But despite heated arguments and disagreements, a different kind of heat sizzles between two headstrong characters, and sometimes, the heat is just too tempting to deny. Let the games begin, winner takes all. Highest ranking: #3 Romance, #6 Chicklit