Keeping You Close: An Indian Marriage of Convenience Romance
Anushka never planned to become a mother overnight. But when her sister and brother-in-law are killed, she makes a quiet, fierce vow to raise their young daughter herself. The problem? The child's grandparents have other ideas, and the courts aren't on Anushka's side. Her only real option is a marriage of convenience to Vivaan, her late brother-in-law's brother. The same man she finds insufferable, cold, and thoroughly aggravating. She tells herself it's a temporary arrangement. A practical solution, nothing more. But living alongside someone has a way of stripping away the version of them you've decided to believe in, and the real Vivaan turns out to be far more complicated than the arrogant front he projects. Slowly, almost without her noticing, her carefully maintained resentment begins to crack. Vivaan, for his part, had clocked Anushka long before tragedy brought them to the same door. Clever, striking, and entirely out of reach, she had always been someone he kept his distance from. When the question of his niece's future forces his hand, marrying her seems like the sensible thing to do, even knowing she can barely stand to be in the same room as him. He frames it to himself as a practical fix, a way to keep his niece close to the people who love her. That reasoning holds up well, right up until it doesn't. Keeping You Close is a warm, emotionally engaging romance about two stubborn people who marry for all the right reasons and fall in love despite themselves. It's a story about chosen family, grudging respect turning into something tender, and what happens when the heart refuses to stay within the lines you've drawn for it.
- Author: Bhavna Goyal
- Genre: Romance
- ISBN: B0GY1Y376P
- Pages: 265 pages