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A high-profile murder. A missing witness. And a city fiercely protecting its favorite young politician.
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They call him Lucknow's golden child. She calls him a murderer.
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When a brutal assassination of UP, Chief Minister plunges the state capital into a constitutional crisis, A ruthless CBI officer arrives with her power unit, from Delhi to take over.
The button under the dead CM's body had his nephew's DNA. Case closed, right?
Wrong.
Ekavira Shah doesn't do wrong cases. As CBI, she's hunted killers for 6 years. But she's never had to hunt one who lives above her apartment, shares her elevator, and looks at her like he knows all her secrets.
Jaiveer Rajvardhan is Lucknow's most ruthless MLA. Cold. Polished. The entire city wants him as their next CM.
Ekavira wants him in cuffs for his uncle's murder.
But the deeper she digs, the dirtier it gets. Her own father is now a suspect.
The public thinks she's covering for him. And Jaiveer? He's not the monster she thought.
He's worse. He's the man her heart refuses to hate.
In a city where power kills, trust is the most dangerous weapon. And falling for your prime suspect might just be the last mistake she makes.
Unless he makes it first.
Step into a ruthless game of psychological chess where the ultimate prize is survival, and the state capital's highest throne.