Indian romance about two people drawn together despite their differences—and the secrets, pride, and choices that stand between them.
Meera Dev is an emerging Indian romance author who loves exploring the complicated chemistry between two people who have every reason to resist each other.
Her stories bring together strong-willed women and formidable men, with family, ambition, secrets, desire, and hard-won trust shaping the romance. She is especially drawn to the moments when attraction becomes something far harder to ignore.
Meera is revising her debut novel, a contemporary Indian romance about Rudra and Siya. Here, readers can get to know the characters and follow the journey toward publication.
She wrote to a man she admired. She never imagined how deeply he would change her life.
Siya Sharma sends a handwritten invitation to Rudra Veer Rathore, a powerful, elusive businessman who rarely makes public appearances. She expects nothing to come of it.
Instead, her life becomes entangled with his. Rudra is accustomed to control; Siya is determined to hold on to her independence. As secrets and circumstances push them into a marriage neither knows how to navigate, attraction grows alongside anger, distrust, and an intimacy neither expected. But desire is not the same as trust—and love cannot be commanded.
The debut novel is currently in revision. Its title and publication details have not been announced.
Meet Rudra & Siya
A determined student. A man who rarely hears no. A romance neither can control.
Siya Sharma is a final-year computer science student in Pune: ambitious, quick-witted, and determined to make something of herself. She can be stubborn, fiercely loyal, and unwilling to trade her judgment for anyone’s approval—even Rudra Rathore’s.
Rudra Veer Rathore has built an empire on discipline, secrecy, and control. Protective to a fault and unaccustomed to being defied, he is certain he knows what is best—until Siya forces him to confront the difference between holding on to someone and earning their trust.
He could control almost anything.
Except what he felt for her.
A marriage neither expected. A love neither can demand.
Follow along for character introductions, notes from the writing process, and updates on the debut novel.