❝ Tied by Fate ❞
Thirteen years apart.
One unspoken bond.
And a love that never really left.
Naina Mehra was always trying to be enough.
The perfect daughter. The ideal student. The girl who checked every box and never let her cracks show. Bubbly to the world, clumsy in the sweetest way but inside, she was a storm trying to stay calm.
After losing her childhood best friend, she never let anyone close again. No one ever made it past the space he left behind.
Agastya Kashyap once wore his heart on his sleeve-until life ripped it off.
He believed in love. In people. In promises. But betrayal turned him cold. Silent. Guarded. Now, he's the man who keeps his distance, trusts no one, and hides behind a perfectly unreadable face.
He doesn't believe in second chances... until her.
Once, they were everything to each other neighbours, tuitions, lunchbox sharers, secret-keepers, partners in every mischief and memory.
But one quiet goodbye turned them into strangers.
Now, thirteen years later, fate brings them back to the same city... the same street... the same story.
Only this time, they're not kids.
This time, the ache is real. The silence is louder. And the connection?
Still there. Still pulling.
"Tied by Fate" is more than a childhood sweetheart, second chance romance
It's a journey through time, scars, and slow healing.
It's about two souls who grew up apart, but never really moved on.
It's about what happens when the universe brings you back to the one who always felt like home.
Some love stories don't begin with sparks.
They begin with familiarity.
And they survive everything... even time.
PAUL
I cheated on my fiancée.
Sophie and I were building our future. In love, happy, peaceful. Then she found a lump in her breast and I made the worst choice: I numbed my fear by sleeping with someone else. My worst mistake and my biggest regret. Now I see Sophie around town with him. She's radiant and laughing with people who actually show up. I'm trying to learn how to be a man who does. If she lets me, I'll spend the rest of my life proving I can choose her when it's hardest. If she lets me...
SOPHIE
I thought the promise was in sickness and in health.
But he buried his fear in someone else. On the same night, I walked into a bookstore and meet the gentle giant owner who invites me to his book club full of misfits.
I'm laughing again, I smile more than I ever have, I heal my heart.
My ex says he can learn to stay, but my bookstore owner keeps showing up like it's as easy as breathing. I don't know what the future holds; I don't know if I'll win this battle against cancer, but I do know I'm done wasting time on people that love only when it's easy.
CALLUM
She came in to Rivers & Rhodes Bookstore and asked for books with happy endings only.
I gave her a recommendation, an invitation, and an offer of friendship. Now, this beautiful brave woman is completely under my skin. I'm not here to win a competition against him. I'm here because choosing someone, second by second, is the only way I understand love.
Content Warnings: on page cheating, emotional and physical infidelity, cancer, mentions of vomiting, bleeding, surgery. Please be advised.