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Tara Sen had always dreamed of a love like the one her elder sister shared with Neil Oberoi. She never imagined she would become his wife.
At twenty-six, Tara is ready to marry the man she loves, until Samar abandons her at the altar, leaving her heartbroken and her family humiliated. When the formidable matriarch Vidya Oberoi proposes an unthinkable solution, Tara finds herself marrying her late sister's husband—a man sixteen years her senior, whom she hasn't seen in a decade.
Neil Oberoi, forty-two, is one of Kolkata's most powerful hoteliers. Widowed for ten years, he has built an empire around a life carefully guarded against love. He never intended to marry again, least of all to his beloved Naina's younger sister.
Their marriage begins without affection, with separate bedrooms, unspoken boundaries, and two hearts still belonging to other people—or to memories of them.
But behind the imposing walls of the Oberoi family's ancestral mansion, something begins to change.
Tara discovers a man whose silences conceal more than his words ever reveal. And Neil, accustomed to controlling every aspect of his life, fails to recognise when his growing fascination with his young wife becomes an obsession.
The sound of her bangles, the scent of her hair, the glimpse of her across a crowded room—everything about Tara begins to unsettle him.
He knows he should keep his distance.
But resisting his own wife is becoming the one battle Neil Oberoi cannot seem to win.
And just as Tara begins to question whether she could ever love again, the man who abandoned her threatens to return.
She once wanted a love like her sister's.
She never expected to discover an entirely different one with the same man.
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