The White Rose
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Last published Sat, Jul 12, 2025
Love is strange.
Love is a hand that pulls you out of the water when you're drowning, but doesn't wait for you to swim. Love lights a candle for you in the dark, but burns out when the path clears. Love feels like a rose, when you don't notice the thorns.
But what happens when you see them? What happens when you learn to fear them?
Do you still touch it?
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The Ranawat family has always had one plan for their eldest daughter- to get her married into royalty, securing both her future and a powerful alliance. But Devika's always fallen behind on the concept of love, let alone marriage. She has never understood it- or, never yet tried to.
Torn between her sense of responsibility towards her younger sisters, and the duty imposed upon her by her family, Devika finds herself caught in a dilemma she didn't ask to be part of.
So when she encounters an unexpected stranger, will she finally learn how to turn her imminent fate into something more... liberating?
"Oh, but what a strange thing it is, truly."
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Original work by and collaboration between @author_ann_ari_ and @SnowoStaring68
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