• academic rival novella • The Structural Biology Lab has three rules: 1. Document everything. 2. Follow protocols. 3. Don't fall for your junior. Mr. Madhava Kamat, a fourth year grad student, is about to break one. Warning: Contents are under extreme academic pressure! --- The characters mentioned in this book belong to the "Pyar Paradise Universe" This is a stand-alone book in the "Fine As Wine" collection. Daily Updates! --- ONC 2025 submission. Exclusively Available in Wattpad. © 2025 Suganthi Lakshminarayanan.

Neel, She called him. Noori, He named her. They decided to stick to names that didn't matter much to them or anyone else. She was running from a horrible vision. He was running from his existence. She wished to fly. He wished to be grounded. She couldn't wait for what awaited her return, the fire of revenge burned her insides and fueled her acts. She created problems. He hated what awaited him, the anticipation made him uneasy and made him laid back. He drugged up solutions. One is set to rule her new game, another is searching for a way out from the rules that bound him. She wanted to show who Vandita Nair was, and He wished to hide Prince Indraneel Dhanrajgir. What they came up with, was a proposed Fling. *********** "I don't want to. I never want to speak about him." She opened her eyes and sat back, staring into space. " I want to push him down and bury him somewhere, somewhere I can never dig up again. I want him to be a nobody to me. A nobody we never speak of. But... But that nobody meant so much, Sakshi. So much that even thinking about him trembles my soul with memories, with this feeling of loss. My heart breaks a little more each time I close my eyes and accidentally think of the color of his eyes. It fucking hurts so much." "It's okay, V. It will be okay. No, it will never be. *********** Completed.

'You look good enough to be my wife.' He said to me when we met for the first time. And I was okay with that-being nothing else than someone's wife. I have been taught to behave well and eventually get married into royalty. That was my life purpose. It was the only path I could choose, until I realised that there's always a better route-a road not taken. Book 2 of Unroyals Series. Format : Novelette

Dhushyanth Reddy and Sita Cherukuri, on the surface, their similarities are endless; they are both the first-borns of affluent, wealthy, political families, they were both born and brought up in Hyderabad, they both studied in the UK for a while, they are both single, and the topic of their respective impending nuptials is of immense interest within high society. While Dhushyanth's family forces him to find a woman to be his wife to add credibility to his persona, Sita's father makes a laughing stock of her relationship status in the state assembly, of all places. Add to this, a media scandal, based on true events. The result: A marriage between the two. A ride that shall be.

FEATURED on OFFICIAL WATTPAD's Community Happenings] Cover by the magician @MoranaInDesign (she is literally a magician!) Maya, a journalist, finds herself in the middle of religious panic when a prostitute she had met is found to be murdered. **** Lucifer, as they have been named, faces the namesake of the Devi in Devipuram. Will they be able to sacrifice this rose too like the other ones, or will the thorns now make them bleed to death? **** Maya has been tasked with writing something about the folk of Devipuram for the upcoming Puja magazine. She decides to visit the slums where the prostitutes live. Here, she meets Radha- a beautiful prostitute with a daughter. The very next day, Radha is found dead in the temple premises. And what the villagers label as the next-in-line in a chain of paranormal murders is a magnetic mystery in the life of Maya which tempts her to get to the root of this cruelty. Will she succeed in finding out the culprit or succumb to death like the five victims? WORD COUNT: 60,000-65,000 words

Cover by @MoranaInDesign While investigating the case of Abhinoy Das' death, Maya is plunged into the hidden world of Bengal's dark creatures, one of which takes a secret interest in her. **** After her success in the case of Devipuram, Maya has gained fame as a detective with expertise in handling paranormal cases. Soon this name invites her to Khatra to investigate the mysterious death of the youngest son of the affluent Das family. But unknown to her, many more deaths are occurring in Khatra, and all of the attacked are virgin females. Despite being asked to not venture outside her case, she does what her heart wishes to. And this time, her heart will be caught. [Book is a standalone and can be read without knowing the events of Daughters of Kalika] Word count: 56k-57k

This isn't your typical revenge story. Here, Ekansh isn't interested in seeking his revenge from Faria. He's just a broken soul, the man belonging to middle class with a nine to five job who's well aware that even if it's about justice, he can't compete with the ones who belong to the top section of the society. While, Faria was born into that top section of the society with all the riches and comfort. She's kind and pretty, something that Ekansh never expected from her. Two different people under one roof. What exactly can go wrong? Everything. Because love knows no bound.

⟢𝑬𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑨𝒇𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 1⟢ #9 in Politics "𝑺𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒐?" In the realm of shadows and transactions, where every heartbeat has a price, I, Ahvi Sutaria, exist as the untouchable petal of Ravivai Brothel. Born into a world where darkness dances with desires, my mother's role as the procurer grants me an unusual immunity. Perhaps luck shields me, or perhaps it's a different price, one that no man can afford. Advait Singh Oberoi, a man capable of purchasing anything with his wealth, yet my heart remains unattainable. He's a politician who claims to despise women like me, commodities in a world of transactions. Yet, he's buying me with a cost so high, it surpasses imagination. He may acquire my body and soul through marriage, but my heart remains untouched. A rule etched into my existence: never my heart. 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓. And so, he marries me. -Desi Romance.

Betrayed by two people she trusted the most, Meera embarks on a revengeful journey by striking an unlikely alliance with a ruthless and mysterious Daksh Sehgal who has his own agenda. As Meera gets entangled in his world, she realizes there's more to him than meets the eye. ------------- All the characters and the plot in this story are fictional. Any resemblance is considered purely coincidental.

"Beauty is not what attracts the eye; but that what captures the heart." -Anonymous "Hypothetically speaking; life is a journey, physical beauty is materialistic and love is priceless. Hypothetically, our requirements when it comes to 'our life partners' are: Personality golden heart love respect But we humans are hypocrites! Hypothesis can never walk hand in hand with practical life When filling the form on a matrimonial site... Isn't it always that the description begins with 'fair and beautiful' or 'well settled and handsome'? Do we not look at the mirror, at our own reflection and judge ourselves harshly? I look at the mirror each day too. The difference is that I see myself in a different light than the rest of the world. They look at me and judge me instantly... And I... Well I happen to know myself better. I know that my abilities are far beyond what greets me in the mirror each day. I know that I desire more emotions from people than just pity and sympathy... You ask me what is wrong with me? I'd reply I am fine... Because I really am My reflection is perfect for me... I am more than a face. I am more than just physical beauty. I am that fire which will someday burn down this typical society..." ________________ Anindita; her name means 'beautiful and virtuous' She has been the center of her father's universe and the reason of her mother's smile. They were never rich... But they could afford her name... Her name that was her identity and whose meaning was synonymous to her appearance. Life isn't a bed of flowers... And neither is hers... This is her story... Of a swan turning into an ugly duckling... From being a VICTIM to becoming a SURVIVOR _______________ This story doesn't aim to hurt or offend anyone's sentiments. A work of pure fiction straight out of my own imagination. I do not support plagiarism of any sort