The Provocation

THE PROVOCATION
They Married for Business. Desire Had Other Plans.

She thought she was buying her freedom with a wedding ring. She was actually signing the deed to her own family's crimes.

Amulya Nair had only one rule when she agreed to marry Agniv Shetty, the arrogant, iron-fisted heir to South India's most powerful maritime dynasty: her mother's ancestral trust remained hers, untouched, and she walked away free after twelve months. It was supposed to be a bloodless transaction, a marriage on paper to shield her family's shipping line from regulatory ruin.

She didn't expect the suffocating heat behind closed doors. She didn't expect the dark, unyielding possessiveness of a man who makes ruthlessness look like an art form, or the terrifying instinct that makes him step directly into the line of fire to keep her breathing.

Agniv Shetty doesn't play games he can't control. But when shadows from the past tear through their fragile truce, he realizes too late that the woman he brought under his roof isn't an asset he can manage on a balance sheet.

When corporate betrayal collides with lethal crosshairs, lines blur between protection and obsession. And Amulya must decide if walking away will save her soul or leave her defenseless against the only man dangerous enough to ruin her.