vedhikakrish
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One land. Two enemies. A love that could bridge warring kingdoms.
750 CE. South India.
When the Gangavadi alliance falls at the Battle of Venbai, Kongu Nadu is left exposed to the victorious Pandya army. With her father and brothers held captive in enemy hands, Revathi, daughter of its Great Lord, must lead her household to safety.
Then she finds him, half dead beside the River Kaveri.
Maran is the commander who led the army that shattered her home. He is also, against every instinct she possesses, the only man who can save her people or condemn them. Revathi saves his life and takes him with her as a prisoner.
But the deeper they travel into the forest, the harder it becomes to see him only as an enemy. Maran protects the very people his kingdom defeated, while Revathi begins to understand that the war which destroyed her family was built upon a lie.
With an unseen traitor moving through the royal court and two kingdoms poised for further bloodshed, Revathi and Maran must choose between the loyalties they inherited and the future they might build together.
Because sometimes the greatest betrayal is not loving the enemy.
It is discovering that he was never the enemy at all.