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A warrior princess. A diplomatic mission she was sent on as punishment. An empire that was not prepared for her. The Storm and the Sun is set in a world inspired by the Indian Ocean civilisation of the 3rd century CE - early Tamil dynasties, Persian trade networks, the Sangam literary tradition. It is not a historical novel. Dhruvika is the youngest daughter of Velanadu's philosopher-king, raised without distinction between sons and daughters: sword and scripture and state, all of it, for all of them. When she kills a corrupt priest to protect her sister's province, her father finds her guilty and removes her from the kingdom. Her punishment is a diplomatic mission to the Sun Dynasty - the most powerful empire in the subcontinent. She goes to negotiate a treaty. She ends up rearranging something considerably larger. A story about two kingdoms, two people who keep surprising each other, and what it means to build something that lasts.

They were taught to stand on opposite sides of history. They never learned how similar they were. Devansh Singh Desai, an Indian opposition politician, understands power, loyalty, and the cost of public life. Alizeh Firoz Khan, a Pakistani medical student in India, understands healing of bodies, and quietly of hearts. Between them lies more than love and fear. There is a border shaped by politics, but also a shared culture shaped by centuries - the same food on different tables, the same music in different homes, the same prayers whispered in different accents. Their love does not try to erase reality. It exists within it. Thread of Fate is a story of two people who discover that while nations may inherit enemies, souls inherit history and some connections are older than the lines that try to divide them.

"Dear stranger," the letter began. "If you're reading this, I'm already gone." When Noor tosses a letter into the sea during a quiet summer in Gwadar, she never expects a reply-let alone from 1925. But one arrives. A bottle. A boy. A century-old secret. As Noor unravels Idris's haunting story, caught between the present and the past, she must decide: Is she rewriting history... or uncovering the truth it buried? 🌊 A time-bending love letter between strangers who never should've met-but did. -From Sheen Ray, the author of The Echoes We Leave Behind.

What if you could slip into someone else's body - but couldn't always slip back out? Twenty-four-year-old Aditi Mukherjee discovers that deep meditation grants her an impossible power: she can transfer her soul into anyone nearby. With her friends Nura and Cyrus, she turns this gift into a weapon against crime and corruption. But every use raises the same haunting question - when you inhabit someone else's body, how much of yourself do you leave behind? In Mumbai, Robin Pinto's life ends in a car crash. Except he doesn't die. He wakes in the body of a nearby beggar, watching paramedics pull his own corpse from the wreckage. His wife. His children. All dead. And someone engineered it. Now Robin is cursed - no body of his own, forever shifting from one stranger to the next - while hunting a killer who thinks he's already won. Millennia earlier, a young Adi Shankaracharya masters the same impossible art. Three souls. Three eras. One terrifying thread connecting them all.

-- She was born to dance. He was born to conquer. When classical Kathak dancer Mehr Roy Chowdhury crosses paths with the intense and unyielding Aaryan Veeransh Rathore, neither expects the fire that ignites between them. From stolen stages to shattered pride, their rivalry becomes the battlefield for something deeper. But love forged in flames is never free of scars. As legacies, secrets, and longing collide-can these two broken souls find a rhythm only they can hear? 💃 Enemies to Lovers 🏹 Royal Drama 🔥 Slow Burn Intensity 🖤 A saga of rage, rhythm, and redemption.. --

A gripping, emotionally raw series about love torn by betrayal, loyalty tested in fire, and the war between truth and reputation. Every tear has a witness. Every silence hides a secret. And what Emaan did or didn't do will burn the city to ash. A raw, emotional journey of love, trauma, and survival.

This novel came out of years of denial, self-doubt, and emotional weight that had nowhere else to go. It is a full work of fiction built from small bites of reality and lived experience, and it took far longer to write than I would like to admit. One ordinary afternoon, during the most mundane stretch of my life, I felt the story pressing against me from the inside and decided, without any grand plan, to open a Google document and begin. I did not know then what it would become. I am not entirely sure I know now. I do not know who will read this. But this novel belongs, in some quiet way, to the real people who loosely inspired it. They will know who they are. I hope they receive it in the spirit it was written. Aman ki Asha means Peace's Hope in Hindi. The name is borrowed from a peace campaign launched by activists between India and Pakistan in the early 2000s, a sincere and beautiful effort to close a distance that history had made very difficult to close. There is still no concrete peace between those two nations. The border remains. But the attempt was real, and that is where I found my allegory: two names, Aman and Asha, a union that was temporary and tragic and genuine all at once. The beauty, if there is beauty in it, is that they were perhaps only ever meant for a small piece of time. Until the clock ran out of minutes. These characters are deeply flawed. They make choices that are hard to defend and harder to forget. I hope you love them anyway, the way I came to love them while writing them, which is to say imperfectly and completely and without quite meaning to. This was a labor of love. The labor was real. So was the love.

Two strangers. One quiet hotel lobby. And a night neither of them saw coming. Rhea isn't running away from anything-she's just tired of feeling invisible. Vihaan isn't chasing a rebound-he's just trying to breathe again. When their paths cross in a dim hotel lobby after a long day of pretending, a simple conversation sparks something unexpected. No names. No backstories. No rules. They agree on nothing, yet understand everything that isn't being said. In the span of one night, two strangers with silent heartbreaks find in each other the warmth they never asked for. There's no plan, no promise-only pauses, laughter, glances that last a little too long... and a lingering question: What if the most unforgettable connection you feel... is with someone you'll never truly know? A slow-burn, emotionally charged story about timing, touch, and the conversations that change us.

"I had loved selflessly, but someone loved me in silence, desperately. I couldn't even imagine it... Why is there nothing in my hands now..."

She was never looking for love. All she wanted was peace. But when a proposal arrived from a name she barely knew, Amara made a choice - not for a man, but for herself. "The Tear Beneath the Veil" is an emotional journey of a soft-hearted girl who's been broken, doubted, and dismissed - yet chooses to rise, not with revenge, but with prayer. This is not a typical love story. This is a story about healing, faith, family, and the quiet courage of a girl who dared to hope again.

Love story of 4 couples

"I was faithful... just not in the way they wanted me to be." Avantika was only 18 when she was married to a man nearly twice her age. Sixteen years later, she's a mother, a housewife, and emotionally abandoned. Until one day, a stranger in uniform steps into her life during a violent incident-and sees what no one else ever cared to. Inspector Aditya wasn't supposed to stay. But neither was her pain. What started as protection turned into conversation. Then connection. Then betrayal. In a world where women are silenced and sacrifice is considered virtue, this is a story of one woman's emotional rebellion - and the cost of being seen. Based on true events. This isn't a fairytale. This is the reality so many women are afraid to speak aloud. Unfaithful in love. Faithful in pain. ⚠️ This story contains themes of emotional abuse, infidelity, coercion, sexual content, and mental trauma. It is based on real-life experiences and may be triggering to sensitive readers. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Names and details have been changed for privacy and protection. This is not a romantic fantasy - it is a portrayal of survival and emotional complexity.

Samar does not trust men-experience taught her better. A father who trafficked girls, a lover who humiliated her on the mandap, and a sister who survived domestic violence left her believing that love is only another form of cruelty. Arpit, rigid and orthodox, is everything she despises-yet he falls for her anyway. Bound by circumstances, they enter a marriage of convenience meant to protect others, not themselves. Unaware of Arpit and abhiman's hidden motive to find her father and rescue their kidnapped sister, Samar stands at the center of love, hatred, and revenge. Samarpit is not a story of saving- it is a story of devotion that waits, endures, and survives.

Kabhi kabhi, ek ajnabi milta hai... aur lagta hai jaise usse pehle bhi kahin dekha ho." > He didn't believe in fate. Until he met her - quiet eyes, white dupatta, and the kind of smile that made him feel like... he'd known her in a life before this one. > They met again. And again. Over tea, books, and long silences that felt like conversations. > And just when he began falling for her... she disappeared.

An arranged marriage. A crumbling family name. A love that was never meant to bloom. Ammara Qureshi was raised to speak with grace, to move with elegance, and to hide every fracture in her heart behind a flawless smile. But when her father trades her hand to Ali Zaman - the arrogant heir of a "new money" empire - to erase a debt, she learns that dignity has a price. Ali is everything Ammara has been taught to avoid: brash, ambitious, and untamed. To him, she's nothing more than a prize - proof that money can buy even the oldest bloodlines. In a house where every glance feels like a challenge, every word a test, Ammara must decide: will she bend quietly under the weight of duty, or will she turn it into a weapon? He thinks she's too refined to fight. She's about to prove him wrong.

{On hold} "I waited for her in silence. This time, she'll hear me." Six months ago, Drishti walked out of Vihaan's life without a proper goodbye. Now she's back-still untouchable, still guarded, still the only thing that ever felt real. But Vihaan Malhotra isn't the boy who loved her quietly anymore. He's a senior resident now-older, steadier, and done hiding how much she broke him. He's not waiting for the perfect moment. He's making one. In crowded wards and chai-stained corridors, what was once unspoken begins to unravel. And this time, he won't let silence win. A story of second chances, quiet love turned fierce, and the boy who stayed-until he chose to fight. ~ Ehsaas : Love Rewritten [ Book two of Ehsaas series ] Sequel to "Ehsaas: Love Unnamed" - can be read as a standalone. 🩺Indian medical romance | 🫶Second chance | ❤️‍🩹Healing love

Genre: Historical Romance, Slowburn, Drama Setting: 16th-century India - during the height of the Mughal Empire Pairing: Crown Prince Aarav Singh Rathore × Veera, a healer's apprentice Themes: Forbidden love, court politics, slow burn tension, class divide, destiny, and rebellion He was born with the stars at his feet - a prince destined for the throne, for war, for greatness. She was born under the shadow of a banyan tree - nameless, hidden, a healer's orphan apprentice. Their worlds were never meant to touch. But one monsoon night changes everything. A slow burn romance laced with secrets, stolen glances, rebellion, and the fire of two souls from different worlds that were never meant to collide - but do. And once they do, there's no turning back.

Zaigham Khan lives by order. CEO of Khan Enterprises. 29 years old. Cold, measured, and dangerously disciplined. His world runs on rules, strict timelines, sharper silences, and the firm belief that emotions are distractions. Zoya Khan is chaos wrapped in sunshine.22 years old. Loud, carefree, and charming. She laughs too easily, talks without filters, and lives like life's a moving swing. But what happens when destiny knots two mismatched hearts into a bond neither saw coming? Tropes: Age Gap Forced Marriage Cousin Marriage (Cultural Context) Slow Burn Grumpy x Sunshine Opposites Attract

"Not every happily-ever-after is written in gold-some come veiled in silence and sacrifice." Aditi Agrawal is 35, confident, independent, and content with her life as a successful architect in Hyderabad-despite her family's growing desperation to see her married. Years after a heartbreak that left scars deeper than she lets on, Aditi has no desire to seek love again. But when her parents convince her to meet the seemingly perfect Shashank Gupta, a charming and progressive businessman from a reputed builder family, she hesitantly agrees. What begins as a gentle, promising arranged match soon blossoms into a whirlwind romance. Shashank is kind, understanding, respectful-everything Aditi ever wished for but never believed existed. Within months, they marry. A dream fulfilled. But dreams have a dark side. Behind closed doors, Shashank reveals a sinister patriarchal mindset. Aditi is asked-then forced-to give up her career. Kindness turns into commands, love into control, affection into abuse. And what began with rose petals ends in bruises, humiliation, and silent screams. Veil of Perfection is a haunting yet courageous tale of a woman who dares to reclaim her voice in a marriage that promised everything but gave her nothing. It explores the societal pressure on Indian women to marry, and the unspoken horrors many endure in the name of tradition.