Vanav Thakur — thirty-five, Rajput prince, and India’s most feared mafia lord — is a man who has never lost a war, a deal, or his ruthless edge. Handsome as sin, cold as steel, he rules with a mind as sharp as his blade, and a heart untouched by love.

When he learns that his sworn enemies, the Acharya family, are celebrating the wedding of their only daughter, Aratrika, Vanav decides their happiness will be short-lived. He storms the ceremony in a storm of blood and chaos, destroying her world in a single night… and taking the shattered bride for himself.

In his ancestral palace, Aratrika becomes both a prisoner and a pawn — forced to toil among the servants, enduring punishments designed to break her pride, not her body. She hates him with every vein in her body, vowing never to bow to the man who destroyed her life. But hatred is a dangerous fire, and in its heat, she finds herself drawn to the power, the danger… and the man beneath the cruelty.

Vanav, untouched by affection all his life, refuses to acknowledge the pull between them — until one day his fury lashes out too far, leaving Aratrika at death’s door. For the first time, he sees her not as an enemy, but as something far more dangerous… someone he cannot bear to lose.

In a world built on revenge, blood, and betrayal, love was never meant to be part of the plan. Yet between them, it might just be the deadliest weapon of all.