UNDER HIS SHADOW
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Last published Wed, Nov 19, 2025
19-year-old Ira Roy has always lived a quiet, disciplined life in Mumbai with her parents. A law student with sharp ambition and a soft heart, she knows exactly what she wants from her future-stability, success, and a love that feels safe.
Ethan Blackwood is none of those things.
At 30, he steps into her life as her father's new international business associate-mysterious, powerful, intensely private. A man who doesn't reveal his past, who controls every room he walks into, and whose eyes linger on Ira a moment too long.
She knows he's older.
She knows he's dangerous.
She knows he's off-limits.
But for the first time, Ira feels alive under someone's gaze.
What starts as stolen glances becomes a tension neither can ignore. Ethan is captivated by her innocence, her quiet fire, her stubborn morals. And Ira is drawn into a world he never lets anyone close enough to see.
He protects her without reason.
He warns her to stay away without conviction.
He touches her like he's already lost the battle.
But loving a man who walks in shadows comes with consequences...
And when secrets from Ethan's past threaten her family's safety, Ira must decide whether to step back-
-or stand with the man the world fears...
even if it means burning with him.
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