Crown Prince Vikramaditya of Krishnagiri already had the love of his life.
And he buried her.
Five years after Princess Priyamvada and their son die during childbirth, Vikram is still consumed by grief.
When the royal court forces him to remarry, his new bride is Princess Vinayakumari of Samudrapuri-a shy, overlooked young woman who has spent her entire life living in the shadows of her accomplished siblings.
Vinaya enters her marriage knowing Vikram may never love her.
She isn't prepared for him to barely see her at all.
Rejected, humiliated, and forced to live beneath the memory of his beloved Priya, Vinaya learns to survive a marriage in which she is a wife only in name.
Until one terrible night changes everything.
A daughter is born.
A cruel decision is made.
And a tragedy leaves Vikram with a lifetime of regret.
When Vinaya returns to Krishnagiri without the little girl she loved more than anything, Vikram finally begins to see the woman who had been standing before him all along.
But some wounds don't disappear with an apology.
And when Vikram finally falls desperately in love with the wife he once rejected, he discovers that winning Vinaya's heart may be far harder than breaking it ever was.
A mature, emotional historical romance about grief, rejection, motherhood, guilt, redemption, second chances, and a husband who must learn that loving someone cannot undo the pain he caused them.
Some love stories begin with falling in love.
Theirs begins with learning how to forgive.
