❤️‍🔥*A river. A sun. A love neither believed in.* Kaveri Ramanathan has spent her whole life believing she is the kind of person rooms forget. Raised in a Chennai orphanage, plus-size in a world that never let her forget it, she has perfected the quiet art of taking up no space - grateful to be liked, never once expecting to be *chosen.* Vikram Aditya Devaraj doesn't have that problem. Heir to one of Bangalore's most powerful business families, he is chosen by everyone - boardrooms, magazines, women his mother approves of - and wants none of it. Not since he watched love destroy the two people who were supposed to teach him what it meant. He stopped believing in it years ago. He's never once needed to reconsider. Until a Tuesday afternoon. Until a laugh he wasn't looking for, from a woman whose face he hadn't even seen. Brought to Bangalore by Aravind - the brother who has been her father, mother, and shield since she was eleven years old - Kavi is just beginning to learn this city, this language, this strange new life, when her path tangles, irreversibly, with a man who has built his entire existence on never being undone by anyone. What follows is messy, funny, fiercely tender, and occasionally reckless - two people from different languages, different worlds, different wounds, falling toward each other while everything in both their histories tells them not to. Pride. Family. Jealousy. Misunderstanding. And underneath all of it, something neither of them asked for and both of them, eventually, cannot live without. She thinks she has never been seen. He has never seen anyone the way he sees her. *Some rivers, it turns out, were always going to find the sun."

Three years ago, they shared a single evening that never quite left them- a conversation too easy, laughter too familiar, a pull too strong for strangers. But the timing was wrong, the circumstances messier than either could admit. No second date. No promises. Now, out of the blue, his name lights up her screen, like a ghost who never really died. She answers. What follows isn't dramatic-just two voices, unexpectedly familiar, threading their way through old silences. Do they still mean something to each other... or is this just emotional static stirred by nostalgia? They don't know. Maybe it's fate catching a glitch. Or maybe, some stories aren't meant to be rewritten- just reread once before putting them down for good.

It is rare that life gives you a second chance. Rarer still that you believe it to be true. Anupama Joshi certainly didn't. Life had not been kind to her. So when she suddenly crosses paths with business tycoon Anuj Kapadia, she lets it go and doesn't remind him of their connection. She doesn't believe that a nobody like her would matter to such a rich and famous person. But she couldn't be more wrong. Anupama has been Anuj's muse for the last 26 years, his unrequited love. When Anuj Kapadia accidentally comes across Anupama at a school function, he almost fails to recognize her. She is nothing like she used to be. Sure people change in 26 years but to this extent. As Anuj continues to reacquaint himself with her, and he begins to understand her a little better, he falls in love with her, all over again. Can Anuj convince Anupama of his true love for her? Will Anupama reciprocate? Or will their fates continue to suffer without a happily ever after?

bairaagi = stoic; a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining. she wasn't going to show. she wasn't going to complain. she wasn't going to say it out loud. but how far can she endure it? can you see the person, who is your first love, and who was once your everything, get married to somebody else? a story of pain, past and a new beginning. cover credits: @before9

"Is she your wife?" she asked hesitantly. "Yes", Avishek said no more. Is he not going to introduce me? I should leave. It's clear, they wanted to be alone, to talk about whatever the hell they wanted to talk. I managed a smile and said, "I'll wait in the car", and left before anyone said anything. I walked out of the café, walked to the car, opened the door and flopped into the passenger seat. She's back. The love of his life, she's back. Whenever my mind wandered about Avishek's past, I had always pictured that girl as this beautiful woman who turned heads when she walked into the room. I was right. Ruchika was beautiful. Even with dark circles under her eyes, messy hair that looked like she hadn't washed it for days, her tired smile, she was still beautiful. I could only imagine how she was when they were young. Why now though? After all these years?

Veera has been in love with Major Nihal Virk since she was a wee little girl running behind her older brother and his best friend Nihal. Read to follow Veera's story as she finds out that 'change' is the only constant in life and sometimes you have to be bold and go after what you want!

Now available as Audiobook on Audible India. When thirteen year old Raven wrote a love letter to Nicholas who was twenty, he never imagined that one day this little girl would grow up and steal his heart completely. *** Raven was only thirteen and silly when she wrote her first love letter and faced her first heartbreak. Nicholas, a 20-year-old young man who, besides being her brother's best friend, besides being off-limits by traditional norms considered her a little sister, and he told her that she'd find the right guy when she's older. Nicholas eventually joined the army and Raven grew up. Years later, during a summer holiday, when Nicholas sees her again as a 19-year-old college girl - all grown up - he fell for her. Hard. And he'd have to fight against the feeling for it was against their traditional norms. [Book two - Signed, Gaius] [Wattpad Editor's Choice] Content warning: This story contains mature sexual content Cover designed by Regina Dionela

Omkara has been pretty optimistic about life from past twenty seven years of his existence. His parents have been having a rocky relationship for more than a decade now. He loathes their relationship. When his father finally decides to file a divorce and at the same time marry Shwetlana, his mistress. Omkara cannot stand the scene. Before he can do anything stupid that might risk him his life, Shivaay his elder cousin intervenes. Omkara is all set to start a new life. Leaving behind his old ideology and being more practical about life. However, before the new chapter in his life can even start a runaway bride storms into his life. With the entry of an unexpected woman in his life, Omkara's life is bound to twist and turn. Perhaps fate had other plans. Will Omkara ever be successful in erasing the existence of his old self?

He doesn't know what love is but he knows he doesn't want to be lonely. She knows what love is but also knows she doesn't have a chance at it. Nikhil is a pretty straightforward guy who can be a little choosy about things and food. Sharanya is mostly a practical person with a romantic heart. With emotional baggage of their respective pasts and little stubborn mindsets these two individuals are brought together for an arranged marriage. Started: Completed:

Is it fair to let a mistake define a person? .......... "Miss...?" he assessed my face with his calculative eyes, waiting for me to tell him my surname. The file was in front of him but he didn't bother to look into it. He wanted to hear it from my mouth, as if he wanted me to feel the guilt reverberating through each cell of my body. "Clara." I said, lowering my head so that I won't have to look into his eyes. "Clara Vincent?" he asked in a serious tone, his piercing gaze boring hole in my forehead. "Avery. Clara Avery!" I said, my voice thickened with guilt and embarassment. .......... Just when Clara Avery thought she was able to left her past behind, destiny brings her back to the place from where she started. Six years after she broke Aaron Vincent's heart, she is forced to work with him but after what she did to him, would she ever be able to look into his eyes? #1 in Young Adult (4/9/2019) #14 in Romance (20/1/2019)