Ashes Before Dawn

Anika was born in silence, raised in shadows, and taught to obey. A brilliant girl from a backward village, she dreams of studying medicine in the capital. But dreams have no place in a world that binds women with shame and duty. When her parents crush her ambitions and force her into an unwanted marriage, Anika submits… only to fall in love with her husband. But just three months later, tragedy strikes—he dies in a brutal accident, leaving her alone, pregnant, and disgraced.



Scorned as a cursed widow, blamed for her husband’s death, and stripped of all dignity, Anika is suffocated by a society that wants to bury her voice. When her twin brother rescues her and takes her to the capital, she finally breathes again—but it’s not freedom. She finds herself under the roof of a cold, mysterious man named Vikram, a stranger dressed in black who hides too much behind his silence.



In his home, Anika discovers her pregnancy.



In his presence, she rediscovers her strength.



And in the storm between them, an impossible bond begins to bloom.



But love is never easy for a girl the world has already thrown away.