BOOK 1 Aligned: A Dark Power Romance

Power is easiest to control when it stays invisible.
Aarohi Rao never wanted proximity to it. She wanted a quiet life, honest work, and the freedom of anonymity. But visibility is not always chosen-it is sometimes assigned.
When a calculated act of violence pulls her into the orbit of Arjun Malhotra, a man who governs influence the way others breathe, Aarohi becomes something dangerous: seen. Not protected. Not owned. Seen.
What begins as containment turns into alignment.
As rival forces test boundaries and pressure spreads through the city like rot, Aarohi refuses to be reduced to leverage or collateral. She learns quickly-how power moves, how silence speaks, how consent is not softness but precision. And how standing beside authority is far more dangerous than hiding beneath it.
Arjun is disciplined, strategic, and ruthless when necessary. He does not offer rescue or romance. What he offers is choice-with consequence. Together, they redraw lines neither of them can uncross, facing an enemy who understands systems better than violence and loss better than defeat.
This is not a love story about safety.
It is a story about alignment.
About what it costs to be visible.
And about the moment a woman stops surviving power-and starts exercising it.