Somebody else's Sin

Karan Patil eloped with the wrong girl.

Zara Iqbal came home in a body bag.

Esha had nothing to do with any of it. She was asleep when her brother ran. She was asleep when the bullet found Zara on a rain-soaked street in Andheri. She was asleep when two fathers sat across a table in Juhu and decided that the cleanest way to settle a dead girl's debt was with a living one.

She woke up engaged to Adnan Iqbal.

Neither of them chose this and neither of them can undo it - not the grief he carries like a second skeleton, not the rage she swallows every time she looks at her brother's face, not the four walls of a marriage that began as a punishment and has no clear path to becoming anything else.

Mumbai doesn't care. The city absorbs its tragedies and moves on.

Somebody Else's Sin is a dark romance set in early 2000s Mumbai - chawls, old money, older grudges, and two people paying for a crime neither of them committed.