I loved her first. She married him anyway. Ten years later, she showed up at my door, broken, betrayed, begging for help to leave the husband who threw her away. She thinks I'm being kind. Helping an old friend. She doesn't know I've been waiting. She never knew how I loved her. Never knew I watched her wedding from the back of the church. Never knew she was the reason I buried my heart so deep even I forgot where. Now she's back. Vulnerable. Trusting. Asking the one man who never stopped wanting her to help her walk away from someone else. This time? I'm not letting her go.

Alisha Seth fears nothing and no one. She's sharp-tongued, fearless, and dominates every room she walks into except when he walks in. Rishi Zamindar. Her best friend's older brother. The man she has seen since childhood. The man she has spent years hiding from, avoiding, and desperately ignoring. Because there was always a line. And she never dared to cross it. Then there's Reyansh, her Reyansh. Her childhood best friend. Her home. The boy she loves with every corner of her heart purely, truly, and completely platonically. They have always been each other's safe place. Until Rishi looks at her one day really looks at her. And the line she spent years building? He destroys it with a single glance. Now Alisha is caught between the fire she can't escape and the home she can't lose. Reyansh trusts them both. Loves them both. He never imagined they could betray him. But when Rishi and Alisha collide Reyansh loves them both. He trusts them both. He never imagined they could hurt him. But when desire, obsession, and loyalty collide someone always gets burned. And Alisha is about to find out that fire doesn't ask for permission. It consumes. Reyansh's world will come crushing down. And no one will survive the wreckage untouched.