In the year 2018, lives Nalini, an ordinary Indian girl who is forced to marry a man twice her age, selected by her abusive grandfather. However, the night before her wedding, her attempt at saving a child from falling into a well backfires when she ends up plummeting instead. When she wakes up, she finds herself in the year 1840 and on the run from society. In the year 1840, lives the feared and heartless Alastair, Duke of Birmingham. In need of a new governess for his child, he offers Nalini a proposal she can't refuse when he meets the exotic and unusual woman by chance. Through a settlement that benefits both, she finds herself on a wild journey, one that involves finding out how to get back home, hiding the truth from the Duke of Birmingham and exposing the dark secret his stony eyes hold. *** Highest ranking: #148 in Romance!! #28 in Historical Fiction!! (Thanks to @MintJujube again for notifying me legit all the time!) Credits to @EvePetal for making a gorgeous cover! Please go check out her cover book because it's more than stunning!

Alyna Rose Swift is a smart, loving and kind girl. Only thing she knows is to give. She's been a girl everybody wanted to be with. A bubbly perfect girl next door that's what she was to everyone but nobody saw the struggle and suffering behind her apparently perfect demeanour. Until one day when a boy named Asher Ivan Cortez waltzed into her life and turned it upside down. Asher is calm, kind and mysterious boy with a difficult past. Both have their own battles to fight but what happens if they are thrown together for a project that's equally important to them both?Will Alyna be able to hide her struggles? Or Will Asher find out what's bothering her? Will Asher be able keep the walls built around his heart? Or Will Alyna crumble those walls and help him?

This story is about two strangers. They both are facing different sort of problems and then something happens and they become "FRIENDS."