Every middle-class lane in India has an Anjali. You see her drying clothes on the terrace, her glass bangles clinking, her eyes carrying a quiet tiredness that no one bothers to ask about. When Anjali married Raghav, she didn't ask for the world. She just wanted a small corner of happiness. Instead, she got the Sharma household-a place where the walls are thick with old rules, and her presence is only acknowledged when there is work to be done. Raghav is there, tied to her by a holy knot, but he's caught in his own daily struggles, leaving Anjali to fight her quiet battles all alone. From the kitchen to the courtyard, it's a constant compromise. It's the ache of never being enough, of being treated like an outsider in the place you're supposed to call home. It's the story of every woman who smiles through the steam of the pressure cooker while her heart is breaking inside. But how long can a soul survive on just crumbs of affection and respect? Sins of Alter is not a fairy tale. It is the raw, beating heart of a middle-class home. It's Raghav and Anjali's journey through the small joys, the heavy sacrifices, and the quiet fight of a woman trying to find her place in a world that keeps pushing her into the shadows.

**2024 Amby Top Favorite Pick in Historical Fiction** Miranda Edwards needed to find a husband. On the night that she thought her supposed suitor was going to propose, she instead stumbled upon him with another woman. Now in her third season with no marriage prospects, Miranda had run out of options. Alexander Archer, the Earl of Carlisle, had zero designs on finding a wife. He had hid away at his estate for five years so that society would never find out his secret. But after being forced into London for a season, he had to come up with a way to get his matchmaking mother to back down from her wife-finding schemes. And Miranda could be the answer to that problem. Read into My Heart is a Christian romance that focuses on trusting in God in all circumstances. Cover art created by RilunaKim

Dr. Radhika Mehta's life in the U.S. is perfectly ordered- until one phone call shatters her calm. Her estranged sister in India is gone, leaving behind twin daughters... and Radhika as their legal guardian. Forced to return to a family that once disowned them, Radhika walks into the world of Mayank Khanna- her late brother-in-law's elder brother, a man of power, pride, and pain. Bound by the children yet divided by their past, Radhika and Mayank's worlds clash in a storm of emotion, duty, and forbidden tenderness. When love blooms where it shouldn't, secrets unravel, hearts break, and destiny takes its own course. When Two Worlds Collide is a story of loss and rediscovery- of how two wounded souls find family, forgiveness, and love in the ruins of heartbreak.

To the world, he is a Beast. To the world, she is a Ghost. To a baby, they are everything. Rudra doesn't do "gentle." He is a storm of iron and cold calculation, a man whose presence usually clears a room. Anshika is his polar opposite-a woman of soft whispers and averted eyes, someone who has spent her life staying out of the spotlight. They were strangers until a blood-soaked promise tied them together. When a dying couple entrusts them with a ten-month-old infant, the instruction is chillingly clear: Do not trust the bloodline. Protect him from everyone. To save the child from a war he's too young to understand, Rudra and Anshika must commit to the ultimate masquerade. They aren't just protectors; they are now parents. In the glittering boardrooms of Bangalore and the crowded halls of elite weddings, they must convince the world that the child in their arms is their own. For Rudra, it means suppressing the lethal beast within to play the part of a devoted father. For Anshika, it means stepping out of the shadows to stand as the shield for a family that didn't exist yesterday. As they navigate bottle-feedings by night and high-stakes secrets by day, the lie begins to feel dangerously real. But in a world where the child's true identity is a death warrant, they must play their parts perfectly. Because if the world discovers that this "perfect family" is a fiction, the massacre they survived in the valley will only be the beginning. One lie to save him. One promise to hold them together. A thousand secrets that could tear them apart.

I cradled him tenderly against my chest, his tears falling into the gentle folds of my kurta's neckline. "Nayan," I whispered. He only tightened his grasp on my waist, his silence speaking volumes. The thought of revealing my knowledge of his love, the woman who had long held my husband's heart, felt suffocating. But I remained silent, savoring the warmth of our first tender touch, our first embrace, as I held him to his vulnerability.

Short story collection. Three stories. Woh ek Raat (Zarrar x Alina)✔️ "Woh ek raat jis mein sab ko kho kar mein ne tumhe paya" Dil pe Dastak (Haider x Muskan)✔️ "Mohabbat ne di dil pe dastak" MeharMah (Izaan x Amira)✔️ "Mein Mehar uska woh Mah meri" Little to no drama just love. Dialogues are translated into english.

This story is not for everyone. Not every marriage hides a gentle love story. Not every man is a hero. And not every girl is born brave enough to fight back. Some girls are raised to stay silent - taught to obey, to endure, to sacrifice. Their fear becomes their cage, their hesitation the reason they lose pieces of themselves little by little. And some men grow up believing power is love, dominance is care, and a wife exists only to surrender. This is not a fairytale. No prince is waiting at the end. Bound by an unexpected marriage to a man eight years older than her - a man once meant to become her brother-in-law - she is forced into the lavish yet suffocating world of the ruthless CEO of Acharya Industrialisation Pvt. Ltd. A man worshipped by society, feared by his employees, and shaped by a royal family where husbands are treated like gods and women are expected to kneel without question. He does not believe in love. He believes in possession. What begins as innocent hope slowly turns into quiet horror. Every gesture she once mistook for affection reveals something far darker beneath it. Her dream of a normal marriage dies a little more each day, until all she longs for is a single moment to breathe without fear. And him? He is not written to be redeemed easily. This story carries fragments of reality - the truths many women still live through behind closed doors, hidden beneath wealth, status, and perfect family names. It is cruel, emotional, uncomfortable, and painfully human. So read at your own risk. Because some stories are not meant to comfort you. Some are meant to haunt you.

just a bunch of short stories that are stuck in my head.🌚 ●Uzr (Complete) ■Ta'beer (Complete)

Based in 1950' India Torn from her family and thrown into a marriage she never chose, Shanti is scorned, abandoned, and left to suffer alone. But fate is cruel-it forces the man who once destroyed her to seek her forgiveness. Can shattered souls rewrite a bond born from betrayal? Forced into a marriage meant to cleanse his father's name, Vishwas loathed the woman he was bound to. He crushed her spirit, cast her aside-until fate shattered his world. Now, the woman he once scorned is the only one who can save him. But does he deserve redemption? ● Inter-religion marriage ● Painful ● Angst ● Second chance ● Pehle ghutne tod grovel hoga then happy ending. NOTE :- If you are not comfortable with any of this stuff, please do not proceed.