❝His memory is woodsmoke and monsoon earth - the one recollection fire itself refused to burn away.❞ Agnija, born of fire - carries a name she will spend the whole of her life earning, though none around her yet know it is hers to claim. Vyomantara is a realm where old magic still moves beneath court and ceremony, where flame remembers what men are permitted to forget. Within it lives a caste of women trained for exactly one purpose: to disappear. The Rupantaris wear any face the crown requires, sworn never to hold even their own reflection past a few borrowed hours. Agnija is the most gifted among them - and so she is given one final, ordinary task: become a foreign princess, promised unseen to a prince the court has already condemned as unmarriageable. She does not anticipate Prince Savyasachi - light of humour, quiet of heart, the one mind in that court sharp enough to see past every performance but hers. He loves what he finds beneath the borrowed face without a name for it, long before he learns what the loving will cost them both. Nor does she anticipate the flame itself, which has kept a truth hidden for decades - a truth that begins, unmistakably, in her. Every era carries its own reckoning. Thrones crack, courts turn cruel in the open, and a woman built to vanish is asked to survive the one curse designed to erase her entirely. Yet some roots hold long after the ground above them has been scorched clean. Can a girl raised to be no one become the single flame an entire kingdom has been waiting, without knowing it, to kneel before? Born to be forgotten. Written, instead, to be remembered.

Book 1 of Maharani Devika Trilogy (Previously known as DharmaPriyaa: The Lady Who Loved Yudhishthira) She struggles to prevent an unwanted marriage. He is thrown into murder attempts. But love still found its way, overcoming all the dangers. ______________ Noble, compassionate, caring to her subjects, Princess Devika Gouvasani is the person every single commoner would root for. Her courage and wisdom become Shivi's strength that provokes Jayadratha, the Sindhu Prince, to overpower both her and her kingdom. But an unjust, misogynist Jayadratha is not a man of Devika's choice. Her righteous soul readily connects with Yudhishthira, the orphaned Crown Prince of Hastinapura who is struggling to restore justice in his late father's kingdom. By the time love sprouts in both the hearts, they realize that danger is not far away! Seperated by conspiracies of fate, yet blessed by incarnations of God and Goddess, will they ever unite again? __________________________ A Goddess. A Queen. A warrior. This is an untold saga of Maharani Devika, a brave woman whom history has not remembered more than a single verse. ___________________________________________ Highest ranking: #1 in tale (out of 5.72k stories ) #3 in Dharma #29 in epic (out of 13.9k stories) #65 in mythology (out of 24.5k stories) Winner of: 🥈The Coronation Award Historical fiction (second place) 🏅The Coronation Category Best Emotional story and best opening 🏅Category winner of The Mahabharat Awards 2020 🥇Best opening winner of Historical fiction awards 🥈 Runner up of Golden Awards 🥈Runner up of Mahabharata and Ramayana awards Cover credit: @Love_aiepathy Banner credit: @me_idnsd Character aesthetics credit: @Sanhita_Oin