Beneath the Silence
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She dreamed of white coats. He dreamed of building cities. Neither dreamed of each other.
At nineteen, Kavya Deswal had her whole life ahead of her-a bright student with big dreams of becoming a doctor, breaking generational expectations in a conservative Haryanvi household. But just when life started to bloom, a storm she never saw coming shattered everything-her freedom, her future, her voice.
Vihaan Ahlawat, twenty-six, is the quiet force behind some of Delhi's most ambitious architectural projects. Raised in a village but shaped by the city, he's the kind of man who builds skyscrapers by day but can't fix the crumbling values at home. His family's rigid beliefs about women and marriage have always weighed on him, but when those beliefs drag him into a forced marriage with a girl he's never met-he learns silence isn't enough anymore.
Two strangers.
A bond neither chose.
And a life they must learn to share-without losing who they are.
In a world that expects them to adjust, submit, and survive, can love grow slowly between the ruins of their stolen choices?
Trope :-
Forced Marriage
Age gap
Slow burn
Growth
Dreams
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