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When Keren is given an ultimatum from her desperate mother to save her beloved elder sister from an untimely death, she knows she must accept a life-altering role-becoming her elder sister and marrying her sister's intended. Forced into an unknown world of family secrets, deceit, and strained relationships, Keren must stay true to her heart, her identity, and her loyalty to her beloved sister as she navigates a web of lies. How will she manage to live with a man but not fall in love with him???

Lucilia Rose, or Lucy, is the crown heir to the throne of the Flora kingdom, the most fertile kingdom on the continent of Azalea. Lucy doesn't want to be Queen, nor does she want any part of the petty, judgemental court she was born into. She just wants to be normal, but she is far, far from that. Dylan Stoneheart-Magnolia is the Bastard son of Lord Johnothan Magnolia. After his mothers death when he was 8 years old, Dylan was thrown into the Royal Court. So he could be raised by his father and his step-mother, Lady Karen Magnolia, to be his fathers heir. All Dylan ever wanted to do was go to school to be an astronomer, but he knew that wasn't going to happen. During the night of the Summer Solstice Ball, they meet, but neither realize that fate and destiny will change their lives forever.

When Pravit Khankaew was twenty-three years old, he drove too fast on a wet road in Chiang Mai and killed a seven year old boy named Korn. He never forgot it. Neither did Korn's family. Twenty years later, Pravit walks into his eldest daughter's London flat on her twentieth birthday with a bakery bag and a confession that rewires her entire life. His debt to the Pornprasert family is due. And the payment, whether Namtan likes it or not, is her. Namtan Khankaew is broad-shouldered, brilliant, and completely blindsided. She is an architecture student who builds things carefully and trusts almost nobody. She did not ask to be handed to a stranger as settlement for an accident she wasn't alive for. Film Pornprasert is soft-faced, devastating, and furiously against every part of this arrangement. She is a medical student who fixes broken things for a living. She did not ask to be handed to a stranger either. She was already in love with someone else quietly, privately, in the way that costs everything when it ends. They are twenty years old. They are strangers. They are now, legally, each other's problem. What follows is not a fairytale. It is something messier and more honest than that two girls navigating a marriage built from guilt, learning each other in the spaces between resentment and reluctant admiration, falling apart and toward each other in the specific way of people who were handed the wrong inheritance and somehow made it into a home. Narrated by Airwin Buakaew Pornprasert household maid, fifty-three years old, employed since 1994, and absolutely nobody's fool.

🌸 2025 Wattys Shortlist 🌸 A romance set in India - a love story rooted in Desi culture, breaking silence and redefining devotion ✨ 💫 From the bestselling author of Bride of the Future King (Amazon India #1 Hot New Release - Time Travel Romance, Top 3 Kindle Bestseller) In a land where tradition crushes dreams, eighteen-year-old Aarti is forced into an arranged marriage with Raghav, a brooding 35-year-old widower and heir to a powerful village dynasty. Illiterate and underestimated, Aarti hides a fierce spirit and a desperate hope to break free. Raghav, weighed down by grief and duty, sees their marriage as a burden, not love. But when Aarti dares to defy the rules that bind her, their forced union begins to kindle an unexpected and forbidden romance. Her quiet courage sparks a fire in Raghav's cold heart-a chance at love, healing, and redemption. In a world where passion is forbidden and rebellion punished, can their fragile bond survive the very traditions that threaten to tear them apart? Dil Ki Bandagi is a sweeping, passionate tale of forbidden love, sacrifice, and the courage to claim one's destiny.