PRATHA
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Book 2 in Crimson Crown series
Pratha
Touch. Claim. Defy.
He wasn't born to follow rules.
He was the kind of man who made them - and then broke them, just to see who'd dare stop him.
In a world built on rituals and fear, Shamsher Dev Thakur roared like a lion. Defeating, yet never bowed.
He wasn't from her village.
He wasn't part of their traditions.
But he was the only man who looked her in the eye... and didn't flinch.
She was barely a whisper - a young girl, full of laughter one moment and wrapped in white the next. A bride one day. A widow the next. Left to rot in a corner, forgotten by fate, punished by a world that decided she had lived too much already.
But he saw her.
She was just... sitting. Still. Staring into nothing.
It broke the heart of the man like him.
But
he made the most dangerous decision of his life:
To go against a village that wasn't his.
To claim a girl the world had already declared untouchable.
To marry her.
Not out of love. Not yet.
But out of pure, ruthless defiance.
This is not a love story.
This is the beginning of a war.
One man. One girl. And an entire society trying to tear them apart.
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