Kara liked Aiden Acharya. Aiden Acharya liked Kara. Arundhati Shah loved Aiden Acharya. All of these sentences were true. They were facts. The first two were well known. The last fact? Not quite. An Aru Shah Murder Mystery. ALL RIGHTS GO TO AUNTIE CHOKSHI. And Canva for the cover.

Once upon a time, Arundhati Shah was the girl who believed in soulmates, reincarnations, and second chances, the girl who loved Aiden Acharya from the time they were fifteen years old, straight through law school, straight into a ring on her finger and a wedding on the calendar. Now she's just the Ace. Twenty-six years old. Managing partner of her own firm. Harvard undergrad, Yale Law, a hundred percent win record, and a client list of the rich, the ruthless, and the unforgivable. She charges a hundred thousand dollars a case and has never once lost. She's the most feared, and most beautiful, attorney in Manhattan, and everyone from cable news anchors to sitting senators is convinced she's building toward something bigger. A Senate seat, maybe. A legacy. Whatever it is, Aru Shah plans to win it the way she wins everything: alone. She hasn't spoken to Aiden Acharya in three years. Hasn't spoken to Brynne, or Mini, or Nikita, or Sheela. Hasn't let herself look at a single headline about the boy who once sacrificed his life for her, who built a hundred borrowed dollars into a media empire. Now Aiden's a billionaire CEO with the kind of face that stops elevators and the kind of company that makes front-page news, and he's just been arrested for the murder of his own best friend and co-founder, Marcus Wren. Every piece of evidence says he did it. Every lawyer in the city says the case is unwinnable. His own board is drafting his replacement before the trial even starts. And the only people left standing beside him are the two friends who once chose his side over hers, desperate, out of options, and about to do the one thing Aru swore she'd never let them do again: bring her back into his orbit. Because there's exactly one attorney in New York with a record good enough to save him. And she used to be the love of his life.

Aru Shah thrives on chaos, glitter, and spilling coffee on everything that moves. Aiden is meticulous, patient, and unknowingly the center of her whirlwind crush. But when Kara Mehta strolls in, mysterious and scheming, it's a recipe for disaster. With the Potatoes at her side, will Aru survive glitter, heartbreak, and her ex-best-friend's chaos-or is this coffee shop about to chew her up and spit her out?

Random Aruden+ Other TPQ ship oneshots I made up at 2am. Yall we read and we don't judge, Its my first time writing on Wattpad so................ ENjoy.

Just a series of oneshots & headcanons from the Aru Shah series! It will mainly focus on Aruden, as I love them a lot, but I will also include some Mindy (Snake of Death) & Hiryyne as well! Feel free to ask for requests, as I will gladly take them!

Aru just came out with her latest album, the majority breakup and love songs she'd written during and after her most recent relationship, which the media seemed to be having a field day on speculating why they'd broken up. Nobody seems to judge her based on who she is. All she was to the world was another rich and famous singer/songwriter. But Aru runs into a particular someone who chooses to look past all her scars and her fame, and she finds the one person who gets where she's coming from. What starts out as something that isn't as fake as they think it is or will be turns into what couldn't be more real. Will they be able to tolerate what others couldn't together? "you said there was nothing in the world that could stop it, i had a bad feeling, but we were dancing, dancing with our hands tied..."- dancing with our hands tied by taylor swift okay how was thaaaatttt you guys really loved new years day (if you haven't, go read that now and come back here!) so i really hope you'll like this, it's definitely a different approach! imma set some stuff down here aru is twenty five, aiden is twenty six. rudy and mini are the same age as aru, brynne is the same age as aiden! nikita and sheela are twenty one! okay now the technical stuff! ALL CHARACTERS THAT I HAVE NOT CREATED MYSELF BELONG TO ROSHANI CHOKSHI! ALL LYRICS AND SONGS I MAY USE IN THIS BOOK BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS! ALL CELEBRITIES MENTIONED ARE REAL PEOPLE, I DID NOT MAKE THEM UP BUT YOU GUYS PROBABLY ALREADY KNEW THAT! and yes, this book is heavily based off of dancing with our hands tied by taylor swift YAY I'M SO EXCITED FOR YOU GUYS TO READ THIS! MWAH MWAH -samhita❤️ COPYRIGHT: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

When it came to her sister's crush, Aru Shah couldn't care less than she already did. She didn't even know the guy, and it didn't help that he was the hot topic in all of Kara's and Aru's conversations. She knew she had to meet the dude someday, because of their mutual friend group, but she didn't expect to meet him to help him and Kara for their project. It helped her too, so what was the point in denying? Aiden knew people only liked him, and talked to him because of his looks. He knew love was a waste of time, because the guy Aiden actually was was someone who nobody cared about. But when one of his friends came up to him and told him that she had found a model for their end-of-year project, he readily accepted, not knowing that this one person would make him change his perspective. In the end, he realised, there were albums of snapshots, all overflowing with pictures of memories he never knew he wanted.

Aru Shah and Aiden Acharya have not spoken properly since the night of Brynne's Diwali party. She's been fine. She's been absolutely fine. She has a curry plant and a job and two best friends who only ask about him every other week now, which is progress. Then Mini and Rudy announce they're getting married in Hampi, ancient ruins, sacred river, the exact city where Aru and Aiden once stopped being enemies, and suddenly she is a bridesmaid and he is the wedding photographer and they are going to be in the same place for seven days and she has no plan whatsoever. She never has a plan. That's always been his job. Told in two timelines, the present, a wedding week unraveling every unresolved thing between them, and the past, five summers of trips across India that built a friendship that quietly became something neither of them had a clean word for: Every Place We've Ever Been is a story about how far two people can travel together while still managing to miss the point. It is also, unexpectedly, a murder mystery. Because on the second night in Hampi, a body turns up in the temple ruins. A stolen divine artifact is missing. And the only two people with the knowledge and the clearance to do something about it are Aru Shah and Aiden Acharya, who can barely look at each other without two years of unsaid things rising to the surface, which makes the enforced proximity either the worst possible timing or, if Sheela's cryptic non-prophecies are to be believed, exactly the right kind. Somewhere between solving a murder, recovering an artifact that could enslave half the mortal world, and watching their best friends get married in a city that remembers everything, they are going to have to decide whether they're brave enough to say the thing they've been almost-saying for five years.

-NOT WRITTEN IN HINDI, ANYONE CAN READ- Aru Shah doesn't expect to get cast as Juliet as soon as she tries out for the role in her College Drama class. But she's ready to give it her all...um...does that include the kiss scene, though? Aiden Acharya, photography major, needs extra credit for a project because he missed a term for his mother's arm injury. Luckily, the drama class offers extra credit- and he's signed up for the photographer. Win-win, right? Until Aiden, one day, rehearses with Aru, Aiden as Romeo. Ms. Kandal decides to cast him- replacing a jealous guy named Dhruv- and sparks a friendship between the 2 leads. But as they rehearse, they see the lines between acting and reality start to blur...