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A girl. Her mace. The nation. ~.~Marrying Ashok was Maya's destiny, their fathers had sealed it when she was five. Her older brother Manoj had a strange way of preparing her for it-priming her mind through books and body through physical training. Growing up, Maya cherished his attention and approval, caring little about his lectures as she practiced mace fighting.It all changed when news arrived of Manoj's death. Shot freeing prisoners, Maya's hero died a criminal. Disowned by her parents, her in-laws, her village, no one claimed Manoj's body until his wrestling Acharya stepped forward to cremate him. Her engagement shattered. Maya turned to his Acharya, insisting he help her rewrite fate. For five years, she trained under Acharya ji using Vayu, her brother's mace. Her quiet rage simmered as seasons passed, her muscles grew, and her family slipped into slow destitution. Ashok's father, British-loving zamindar Bade Babu, came to their rescue, restoring her match with Ashok. The government would leave them alone, he told them, no one remembered Manoj anyway.Except Maya.~.~Image used in the book cover is an oil painting by German Artist Hermann Linde (1863-1926), titled, "Girl standing in a verandah wearing a pochampalli sari."…

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Avanti Narayan is a textbook shrew. That's kind of a basic requirement when she spends six days a week sautéing prawns in garlic butter, laying cream-coated beans in between sheets of vegetarian lasagna, or even stewing mushroom soup until her natural curls frizz to death. Growing up, she had a reputation for being too intimidating for her own good, and making it as the sous-chef of a restaurant catering to the snobbiest section of Delhi's elite has only cemented that tag. She rarely bothered about it until her arranged marriage dates started stinking with rejections. Gaurav Pandita needs to grow a pair. Being scarred three months ago with the love of his life cheating on him was bad enough, but a viral video of his drunken breakdown destroyed what was left of his dignity. And his career. Soft-boy wimp isn't exactly suitable for his brand as a men's lifestyle influencer. So when opportunity presents itself to tame the biggest shrew in town and regain his chad male status, he clicks on it before more trolls can trend beta simp. ~.~A tale as old as time. A song that rarely rhymes. Barely even friends. Wait for her to bend. This wedding season, the shrew meets her match. ~.~…

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Winner of Wattpad India Awards 2020 (Judge's Choice) in the New Adult category.~*~"The lights are cheeky, you can't live without them, and yet if you get too close, they'll blind you. Darkness? Well it doesn't cheat. It's cool and soothing. It's reliable."~*~Madhulika Thakur thought it would be a good break from work when she agreed to visit the countryside. After all, someone needed to sort out the property her family owned there, and real estate was her forte.What she didn't expect was to be engulfed by a landslide of issues just waiting to be addressed. She must navigate her way through the mess of a fragile social fabric, complex caste equations and the sheer helplessness of the people she never knew worked for her; all the while trying to regain the trust of a long-abandoned old friend.For the first time in her life, she must choose between what she wants and what is right.~.~Cover by @chaashnee…

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It may feel good to be pretty, but the problem with being beautiful is that there are thousands of people who look like you. Ugliness, however, is unique.-------------------One girl, a walking-talking example of contradictions -- ambitious but naive, kind but blunt, social but awkward -- is living in perhaps the most competitive society in this world. She has a dream, a fairly conventional and acceptable dream, one which every parent would approve of. Unfortunately, millions of others share this dream, and in order to fulfill hers, she has to eliminate her competition, literally.Throw in a fair share of drama. Friends and family, crushes and exes, decisions and choices, and the life story of an Indian teenager would be complete.----------------------The last few years of school are the most memorable; grades, stress and career mixed with friends, fun and dreams. But most of the time when we are planning our awesome candid picture-perfect life, we end up crossing the 'i's and dotting the 't's.------------------------------------COMPLETED ON JULY 14, 2018Featured in the teen fiction reading list of Wattpad India!Cover credits: @reluctantbibliophile…