Of Wildfire and Wilderness

Book 2: The House of Mewar

Rajkumari Miraya Mewar has always been the untamed flame of Udaipur. Unbothered by the rigid court protocols and the calculated chess games of the royal durbars, she rules her own sovereign domain: the rugged, storm-swept ridges of the Aravalli hills, where she has spent years fighting to establish a protected leopard sanctuary. She answers to no one, bows to no contract, and trusts only the raw instinct of the wild.

But when a multibillion-dollar corporate mining conglomerate threatens to tear down her sanctuary's eastern boundaries, the empire faces a new kind of warfare. And leading the corporate invasion is Abhimanyu Verma.

A notoriously cold, sharp, and ruthless environmental attorney from Delhi, Abhimanyu is a man of absolute text and unyielding precision. He handles legal warfare like a master structural architect, analytical, detached, and completely weaponless to emotion. He arrives in Udaipur with an ironclad legal mandate to dismantle the princess's sanctuary, view her conservation efforts as a mere romantic fantasy, and box her parameters into a tight corporate corner.

But when an untamed royal wildfire collides head-on with an icy legal fortress, the boundary lines instantly begin to blur. Locked in a high-stakes war of wits over dusty files, remote forest stations, and dangerous monsoon nights, they discover that some parameters cannot be calculated on a spreadsheet. As external corruption forces them into an unexpected, hyper-intimate alliance, they must choose between the duties they have fiercely guarded and the explosive love that threatens to consume them both.