A new story begins... and this time, it's not just about love it's about everything that love hides. Hidden Affection. A tale where emotions run deep even when they're buried beneath anger, silence, and duty. She's fierce, free spirited, and unpredictable a 24 year old with a heart full of spark, rebellion, and unapologetic dreams. He's mature, composed, and everything she swore she'd never fall for a 28 year old man bound by rules, reputation, and silence. They're nothing alike. She's chaos. He's calm. She questions everything. He follows structure. But sometimes, it's the opposites that burn the brightest when they collide. When their worlds crash into each other, sparks fly but not the pretty kind. It's messy. It's intense. And beneath all that chaos... something begins to grow something they both try to deny. A journey that starts with misunderstandings, cold stares, and unexpected encounters... A story where hatred slowly softens into something unspoken. Where boundaries blur. And hearts, unknowingly, begin to lean in. Tropes you'll find in this story: • Arranged Marriage • Professor x Student • Chaotic Couple • Slow Burn Romance • Opposite attracts This is not your typical romance. It's about stolen glances, denial, unsaid feelings, broken rules and hidden care and the slow unfolding of affection that was never supposed to happen. Hidden Affection - By @author_aryaa Creative Collaborator - @ehaawrites We can't wait to share this journey with you.

.✧ Thriller Dark Romance ✧. Ishita Rousseau & Ikshita Rousseau-the cherished twin princesses of France. Their lives were perfect... Loving parents. Six overprotective yet devoted brothers. A royal family that worshipped them. They were everything a kingdom could ever dream of. Until one night... Everything burned. At just two years old, the twin princesses vanished-after a devastating accident... or perhaps, something far more sinister. A murder. That same night, France lost its queen- Savi Alexander Rousseau. And after seven generations... the only daughters born into the Rousseau bloodline-were gone. Years passed. Hope faded for the world... but never for the Rousseaus. They searched. Relentlessly. Desperately. For their daughters. Their light. Their happiness. Their everything. And then-after fifteen long years... The impossible happened. They found one of them. Ikshita Rousseau. Alive. Safe. But... She didn't recognize them. She didn't remember them. The innocent girl with a soft smile and a face that could melt hearts... was a stranger to her own blood. She had no memory of the past-no memory of being a princess-no memory of the family that never stopped loving her. But the nightmare doesn't end there. Because they only found one. And the question that haunts everyone remains- If Ikshita survived... where is Ishita? And what really happened that night? To uncover the truth... step into the darkness of Rousseau's Lost Mafia Princesses.

They performed her last rites, while she was still alive. Akshara Maheshwari was erased from her own family before she could even understand what she had done wrong. Abandoned, forgotten, and declared dead, she disappeared from the world that once called her blood. Years later, she returns.. not as a broken child begging for answers, but as AK - a name the world admires, fears, and follows. She doesn't come back for forgiveness. She doesn't ask for love. And she doesn't reveal herself easily. Because some wounds don't need apologies... they need truth, power, and reckoning. As the Maheshwaris celebrate, lie, and protect their secrets, the past claws its way back into the present. A past involving betrayal, silence, a sold child, and a savior who changed her fate. What happens when a family realizes the daughter they buried... is the woman who now controls their empire? And what if revenge isn't her goal, but taking back what was always hers? A story of abandonment, survival, silent revenge, and a girl who learned to smile while planning her return. Read to find out: Will the truth destroy them... Or will Akshara destroy the truth first?

Kavya,after being molested by her in-laws runs away one week before her wedding and ends up in a village. Keshav who is a priest in a village, who fell for kavya the second he saw her. What will happen when kavya asks him to marry her but it will be a CONTRACT MARRIAGE.