Velvet Hearts Entwined

Book One of the Velvet Series

Two broken hearts.

Four innocent souls.

One marriage built on responsibility... never on love.

At twenty-five, Agni Choudry has already lived through a lifetime of loss. A devoted father to his four-year-old twins, he pours every ounce of himself into raising them, building his bakery startup, and completing his MBA. His heart, however, remains buried with the woman he once loved.

When circumstances force him into a marriage of convenience with Neer Singh, he gives her a place in his home, accepts her children as his own, and fulfills every responsibility... except the one that truly matters.

He sees her as the mother of his children.

Never as his wife.

At twenty-three, Neer knows what it means to survive. Escaping an abusive past and a failed marriage, she asks for nothing more than a safe life for her two-year-old twins. She embraces Agni's children with unconditional warmth, quietly carrying the weight of a family that still feels like it belongs to someone else.

For two years, they have shared the same house.

The same room.

The same bed.

Yet a distance stretches between them that neither has the courage to cross.

Until four little hearts decide otherwise.

As laughter fills the silent home and tiny hands begin stitching together what grief had torn apart, Agni and Neer discover that healing doesn't always arrive with grand declarations. Sometimes, it comes in bedtime stories, flour-covered kitchens, children's giggles... and the quiet moments between strangers learning to become a family.

But the shadows of the past refuse to stay buried.

Because the woman Agni loved didn't simply leave him.

She died.

And the truth behind her death was never meant to remain a secret.

Velvet Hearts Entwined is an emotional journey of healing, second chances, found family, slow-burn romance, and the extraordinary love that grows when two strangers choose to become home for each other.