When Russia Loved Her First

Saari duniya se jeet ke main aaya hoon idhar,
Tere aage hi main haara kiya tune kya asar....✿⁠

BOOK 1 of series RED & SAFFRON

She left India with a dream.
She didn't know she was carrying a promise with her.

AADHYA SHARMA has always fought for her future. Bold, ambitious, and academically brilliant, she earns a fully funded scholarship to Lomonosov Moscow State University-her chance to escape a family that believes a girl's freedom can ruin reputations. But her victory comes with a condition: a promise to her father that could one day cost her everything.

Russia is unfamiliar, cold, and unforgiving.

So is ARSEN MIKHAIL VOLKOV.

Quiet, guarded, and impossible to read, Arsen is nothing like the people Aadhya is used to. Their first meetings are filled with sharp words, clashing opinions, and undeniable irritation. They argue. They disagree. They challenge each other at every step. What begins as pure annoyance slowly turns into something neither of them planned-or wanted.

Between academic pressure, cultural differences, unspoken pasts, and a promise hanging over Aadhya's head, emotions become dangerous territory. Especially when both of them have learned, in different ways, that love is never simple.

Set in the heart of Moscow, this is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers story about ambition, resistance, unspoken feelings, and the fine line between control and surrender.

Some promises are made to protect dreams.
Others exist to destroy them.

And neither of them is ready for what this one will cost.

NOTE - This story focuses on emotions, slow burn, and character depth. No explicit smut.

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