In the rapidly changing city of Gurgaon, Radha is a devoted wife with a quiet sense that her life is not her own. Trapped within the expectations of her traditional in-laws, she longs for something more—something she can’t yet name.
When she befriends Mira, her bold and unconventional neighbour, everything begins to shift.
What starts as friendship becomes something far more complicated.
As Radha, Shyam, and Mira are drawn into a fragile, shifting dynamic, loyalties are tested, boundaries blur, and choices carry consequences that echo across years.
Because some betrayals don’t happen all at once.
And some relationships change us in ways we can never undo.
Poornima is an award-winning novelist whose short stories have been published in The Guardian and The Telegraph newspapers in the UK. Born and raised in India, she still retains a deep connection to her motherland, which reflects in all her stories and books. Poornima lives in the UK with her family.
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