DEDICATION
" To the ashes that still remember they were once fire."
To the ones who stayed, even when it hurt,
You,
who stitched torn pages with silent prayers,
who believed in broken hearts learning to beat again,
who held your breath through betrayals,
and still wished for redemption.
This is for every soul
who knows that love is not soft,
it cuts, it bleeds,
but it also rebuilds,
one scar at a time.
For you,
who understands that graves don't just bury,
they yearn,
for truth, for justice, for a second chance.
Welcome to a war
where enemies remember love
a little too well.
~The Blackboard
BLURB
Yearning Graves
Love?
Hate?
Or the aching in between?
She walked away.
He let her go.
But some fires never die.
She is Ritvika Roy.
fierce, fearless, and ruined by a love she once trusted.
He is Aksh Raghuvanshi.
a man forged in silence, haunted by what he couldn't protect.
Once, they were each other's everything.
Now, they stand on opposite sides of the battlefield,
of justice, of revenge, of truth.
But when fate digs up the past,
and secrets claw their way back into the light,
the graves they buried their love in begin to stir.
He wants answers.
She wants closure.
But destiny?
It wants them to bleed… together.
In a world of broken promises and resurrected wounds,
Can two shattered souls find their way back to each other?
Or will the ghosts of their past
Haunt them over and over again?
Find out in Yearning Graves.
where love isn't just a memory,
It's a battleground.
Trigger Warning
Yearning Graves deals with subject areas such as betrayal, psychological manipulation, trauma, revenge, mourning, as well as moral ambiguity. In this particular story, the involved characters experience a high level of mental turmoil, trust problems, as well as some challenging encounters.
This book contains:
Toxic relations and the consequences
References to manipulation, emotional abandonment
Intense confrontations and verbal conflict
Rather complex mental health struggles (guilt, identity crisis, and trauma related to trust)
and
Themes of justice vs. vengeance
Sharp dialogue, emotional warfare
Reader discretion is advised.
And remember… "This story? 0% smut, 100% plot. Every burn, every betrayal. comes with consequences."
PROLOGUE
न सर्वे मृताः श्मशाने शयन्ते।
केचित् हृदयेषु जीवन्मृताः भवन्ति॥
"Not all who are dead lie in cemeteries.
Some remain living dead within another's heart."
People think graves are built for the dead.
They're wrong.
Some graves breathe.
Some answer when you call their name.
Some sit across from you in courtrooms... wearing the face you once memorized with trembling hands.
I used to know every version of Aksh Raghuvanshi.
The boy who stole my coffee because he hated sugar.
The man who promised we'd never become strangers.
The fool who kissed my forehead as though forever was something humans could actually promise.
Now I know another version.
The one who looks at me as if loving me was the greatest mistake of his life.
Funny, isn't it?
We never buried each other.
We simply kept living.
Piece by piece.
Until everything we once were became a cemetery neither of us had the courage to leave.
People ask me when I stopped loving him.
I smile.
Because hatred has never frightened me.
Indifference would have.
Every accusation he throws at me sounds like a prayer spoken by someone who still remembers my name.
Every silence between us carries the weight of words we were too proud to say.
He believes I'm responsible for the ruins between us.
Maybe I believe the same about him.
Maybe that's why neither of us has won.
Not even after all these years.
Love doesn't disappear.
It decomposes.
Slowly.
Quietly.
Until all that's left is two people standing over its grave... yearning for the heartbeat they buried with their own hands.
And perhaps that's the cruelest part.
The body inside that grave...
...was never our love.
It was us.
CHAPTERS WILL START FROM 25 AUGUST