He never chased approval. He learned to live without it. She grew up learning how to earn it from mentors, systems, rooms that rewarded performance over truth. When Samarth, a quietly perceptive architect and a guest faculty at Vishwakarma Design institute, meets Diya, a sharp, driven student, their connection begins in discipline and design. But slowly, between drawings, silences, and shared spaces, something shifts. Working together begins to surface old rivalries, buried wounds, and questions neither of them knew how to ask. In a world that teaches control, ambition, and restraint, they begin to learn something far more dangerous how to be seen, without performing.

After turning twenty-one, Maya sets out to find the birth mother who might explain everything. A violent encounter with a mysterious man plunges her into a darker world. He is as haunted as she is-fierce, damaged, terrifyingly tender. Their chemistry is immediate and volatile: refuge that threatens control. As Maya digs into the past, buried secrets fracture her identity and force impossible choices. Trauma refuses neat endings. Love becomes both lifeline and liability-can redemption survive, or will the darkness destroy them both? What will Maya uncover about herself and his past as she tumbles down this dark path? Is he her safe place to land?

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˚ ♡ ˚ Picture the perfect girl Elizabeth is her-on the outside. Inside she's unraveling, caught between the life everyone expects her to live & the one she secretly craves-caught between the boy her parents & teachers love & the one who makes her heart race. Every smile hides her fear of never being enough. Every kiss & secret meeting threatens the doll shelf she stands on. ˚ ♡ ˚ Lisa is second in command & second in everything else. Including her own boyfriend's heart. Fitting into Elizabeth's shadow leaves her never feeling truly seen. ˚ ♡ ˚ Kaylynn glides through rooms catching everyone's eye; she's just that beautiful. But she's tired of being watched, tired of being "othered" & tired of being the only one who seems to have a conscience. ˚ ♡ ˚ Holly is plucked from obscurity & placed on the doll shelf with the princesses. She never expected to be the object of anyone's affection but she's swept into a whirlwind of firsts that feel a little too good to be true.