The Garden Of Second Chance
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Set in modern-day Jaipur, India, this is a slow-blooming romance between Aarav Mehra, a young widower and wealthy businessman, and Meera Sharma, a shy, soft-spoken woman with a difficult home life, forced into an arranged marriage with him for convenience.
Haunted by his late wife's memory and overprotective of his 1-year-old son, Aarav sees Meera as nothing more than an opportunist. Meera, however, falls quietly and deeply for him - not for his wealth or power, but for the glimpses of pain, loyalty, and tenderness he keeps hidden.
Their bond begins at the office, but truly takes root in the family garden, where Aarav's mother often brings the baby - and where Meera starts forming a gentle, maternal connection with the child, unknowingly healing parts of herself along the way.
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In one brutal motion, he split her partition with vermilion. A chain followed. Binding her with him He leaned in and hissed. "Welcome to my hell, Mrs. Rawal." She smiled. Leaning closer, her voice dropped to the same edge. "Your hell just met its goddess." And in that moment It didn't feel like a marriage. It felt like two disasters... choosing each other. --- This book contain mature content and language Like assault , sexual proximity, violence etc.
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