**🇮🇳 1970s India. A marriage of duty. A love that defies fate.** At just sixteen, Vidhya is torn from her childhood and thrust into a world where she must become a wife overnight. Her father, knowing his time is near, entrusts her to Vikram-the son of his dearest friend, a boy he once raised as his own after tragedy left Vikram orphaned. Now twenty-eight, Vikram is a man shaped by loss and the weight of an unwanted past. Taken in by Vidhya's father at fifteen, he owes the man everything-but marriage was never part of the debt he intended to repay. To him, Vidhya is a responsibility, not a companion. To her, Vikram is both a protector and a stranger. But as they navigate their forced bond, battling the weight of tradition, the whispers of society, and the ghosts of their pasts, something shifts. She longs for knowledge, for a life beyond the expectations placed upon her. He, shackled by guilt and fear, refuses to believe in love. Their journey is not just about marriage-it is about healing, about rewriting their fates, and about discovering whether love can take root in the most unlikely of places. ✨ **Will Vikram allow himself to care? Will Vidhya find the strength to shape her own destiny?** ✨ A heart-wrenching tale of love, loss, and rebirth, **"Tera Mera Bandhan: Ek Anjaani Dastaan"** brings to life a romance forged in duty but strengthened by understanding. 💫 *Some relationships are written by fate... but only the heart can decide their ending.* 💫

🌸 2025 Wattys Shortlist 🌸 In 1950s India, where women are expected to obey without question, eighteen-year-old Aarti is forced into an arranged marriage with Raghav, the stoic thirty-five-year-old son of the village head. Illiterate yet brimming with quiet dreams, Aarti longs to learn and live freely. Raghav, burdened by duty and haunted by grief, hides his heart behind silence and sternness. As tradition binds them together, Aarti dares to begin a rebellion of the heart. But can she break free from the chains of expectation-and will Raghav ever let himself love again? Author's Note 📖 This version includes Chapters 1-10. ✨ The complete story (Chs. 11-56 + Epilogue) is exclusively on my main account @ShaarShree. 📌 Link in comments - please vote, comment & support! 💖