She stopped believing in love. He never believed he deserved it. But destiny had other plans-and they began with a wedding neither of them asked for. Mira Deshpande bakes poetry into pastries and hides quiet grief behind frosting and flour. After a love that shattered more than just trust, she's done waiting for a fairytale. So when her parents arrange her marriage, she doesn't fight it but she doesn't expect anything from it either. "𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴." Ashvik Suri is a man of paper cuts and practiced silences. On the surface, he's the reserved owner of a quiet bookstore. But behind the shadows and stacks of forgotten novels, he carries a secret-he's A. Reyaan Vale, the anonymous literary sensation who writes about the very love he refuses to claim for himself. "𝘏𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦-𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺." Two strangers, and a bond neither planned to cherish. But in the soft hush of shared spaces-between Mira's chalkboard quotes and Ashvik's midnight scribbles-a new story begins to write itself. Gentle, aching, real. Until a secret identity and a broken past threaten to turn their fragile beginning into another ending. 𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫?