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Aira Hashmi was abandoned by her own parents before she was old enough to understand what abandonment meant.
Raised by her grandparents with love, she grew up learning to stand on her own. She learned not to depend on anyone and not to let people see the things that were going on inside her.
At twenty-two, Aira is exceptionally intelligent, independent, reserved, and seemingly impossible to shake. She is kind to those who earn it and silent with those who don't. She observes more than she speaks, keeps her emotions to herself, and has learned to fight her own battles.
But beneath the calm and composed woman what no one sees is a girl who has spent her entire life carrying the same unanswered question:
What did I do to deserve parents who didn't want me?
Her grandfather is the one person she loves more than anything, and their joint family is the closest thing she has ever known as home. But the past she has tried so hard to leave behind has a way of finding her again.
When circumstances bring her face-to-face with the parents who abandoned her, Aira is forced to confront everything she spent years trying not to feel.
At the same time, a new chapter begins when she joins her grandfather's friends company and finds herself working under a mentor known for being strict, distant, and nearly impossible to impress. He is not someone who easily lets people into his world and neither is she.
Between family secrets, old wounds, new relationships, and a life she never imagined for herself, Aira will have to discover that being strong doesn't mean never needing anyone.
Sometimes, the hardest battle is learning that you were never the one who was to blame.
This is Aira Hashmi's story.
A story of family, love, loss, healing, and the yearning to finally be chosen.
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