Love Bound to the Soil

Kavya didn't know what it meant to compromise. As the pampered granddaughter of the powerful Hegde family, she grew up having every single whim served on a silver platter. Breathtakingly beautiful, spoiled to the core, and utterly fearless, her word was absolute law. She believed only a remarkably handsome, exceptionally good-looking man was worthy of standing next to a beauty like her. But her blind arrogance cost her dearly when a reckless scheme to trap a handsome man backfired disastrously behind closed doors.

To protect the Hegde family honor from total ruin, her parents swept her shameful attempt under the rug. And to keep the scandal buried forever, they decided to hastily marry her off-deliberately hiding the ugly truth of what she did from the world.

The unsuspecting man her family chose was Dhruva Gowda.

At 26, Dhruva was the exact opposite of the fair, handsome man Kavya envisioned. A self-made farmer who took charge of his family after losing his father young, Dhruva possessed a broad-shouldered, athletic build forged by years of real labor, and a deep, sun-baked dark complexion from working under the open sky. Defined by iron discipline, responsibility, and unyielding self-respect, he was a man of principles who had earned his land and dignity through pure sweat.

His family welcomed the Sarpanch's granddaughter with pride, completely blind to the dark secret she brought into their home.

She is forced to marry a dark-skinned farmer she never wanted, holding onto her ego while hiding a truth that could destroy her new life.

Two completely opposing worlds tied by a secret-until the truth finally demands its price.