His desire

Love - a feeling he had buried long ago, and she had never known. But destiny had its own plans - binding them together as each other's only desire.

Advik Singh Malhotra - CEO of ASM Industries.
A man shattered by loss, still mourning the death of his first love who battled cancer till her last breath. Grief turned him cold, ruthless - a shadow of the man he once was.
When a scandal threatens to tarnish his reputation, Advik makes a decision he never thought he would - marry a woman he barely knows.
But can a man who has forgotten how to love bring happiness to a heart that has only known pain?
Or will he break her even more?

Aakriti Pandey - A girl who fought fate with bare hands.
Born into a patriarchal family where daughters were seen as burdens, sold into a forced child marriage at the age of three, her life was a prison built on fear and cruelty.
Tortured, abused, and betrayed - when faced with being sold again, she chose the only way out: escape.
Running away from her past, she crashes into a future she never imagined - a future that begins with marrying a stranger... a man with scars of his own.

When two broken souls are forced into a bond neither asked for, will they heal each other... or destroy what little hope remains?

Desire (Book 1)
Aakriti Pandey × Aadvik Malhotra
A story of shattered hearts, unspoken pain, and a love neither believed they deserved.