inkedandenchanted
At fourteen, Mrittika Banerjee had everything.
A powerful family. Three brothers who loved her. A mother who called her Mii. A home where she had always been treated like a princess.
Until the night her mother died.
Mrittika was the last person seen with her.
The evidence pointed toward her.
Her adopted sister's silence sealed her fate.
And within three days, the girl who had once been the cherished daughter of the Banerjee family was branded a murderer and sent away to a prestigious boarding school in England.
But the boarding school isn't the refuge her father believes it to be.
Behind its ivy-covered walls, ancient halls, and perfect reputation lies something much darker. Someone has been waiting for Mrittika.
For four years, she survives things no one should have to endure.
She learns to stop trusting.
Stop begging.
Stop waiting for someone to save her.
Until, at eighteen, she escapes.
Hunted by the very people who were supposed to keep her imprisoned, Mrittika finds herself alone on the streets of a foreign city-with nothing but her mother's pendant and the snake she rescued years ago.
Then she meets him.
Cold. Dangerous. Untouchable.
The heir to a powerful Indian family whose legitimate empire hides a far darker kingdom beneath it.
A family that doesn't ask Mrittika where she came from.
They simply give her a place at their table.
For the first time, she discovers something she thought she'd lost forever:
home.
But becoming part of their family means becoming part of their world.
A world of secret societies, elite academies, blood debts, forbidden romance and an empire built in the shadows.
And when Mrittika's past finally catches up with her, she discovers that her mother's death wasn't what she thought.
The person who destroyed her family has been closer than she ever imagined.
Now Mrittika has a choice.
Return to the girl her family abandoned-
or become the woman they should have feared.
Because the daughter they buried fourteen years ago...