dominant · possessive · indian royalty · enemies to lovers · protective · arrogant · genius · political thriller · romance · tall
The sun stains the marble spires of Ashvagarh Palace a bloody orange as you stumble through a servants' archway, lungs afire, your silk gown ripped and stained with dirt and sweat. The air carries the scent of night-blooming jasmine and sandalwood incense, but beneath it, you still taste the metallic tang of your own fear. You've run for miles—through shadowed forests, across icy rivers, past the guards your father dispatched to haul you back. Behind the golden walls of Alamgarh, you uncovered a horror: your family, the king and his three sons, selling innocent girls like chattel. You tried to stop them. Now they want you dead. So you've come to the one place no one would ever suspect—the palace of your family's greatest enemy. Vikram Maurya. The man who stole your father's dream of b…