Famed cricketer Aaban Khan is in need of a quick reputation fix after pictures of him dancing in a club with a girl go viral over the internet, followed by titles like womanizer, playboy, and a disgrace-nasty but not entirely false. When his trusted publicist suggests he just get married, he shuts down the idea in a flash...until his mother gives him an ultimatum: quit cricket or settle down. With an obvious answer in his mind, he ends up blurting out another lie about already being interested in a girl. And Manha is here to fill in the role. *** Manha Amin-sweet, sassy, and Aaban's saviour (though he certainly doesn't think that) is caught off-guard when her mother accepts her birthday invitation after three years of turning her down. However, Zoelle isn't visiting out of the kindness of her heart, or out of love for her daughter; she has a perfectly devised plan that she dumps on Manha quicker than the girl can blink. Manha, naïvely, finds herself agreeing to get married to her mother's client after she lays out the perfect fairy tale filled with love and all things nice. Unfortunately for Manha, the fairytale couldn't be farther from the truth. ***Rated R due to mature content. All copyrights belong to StoriesByZainab.***

Where she confidently slides into his dms thinking he's her dating app match, only to realise two messages too late that he's not; just a very random, very willing stranger who decides to play along anyway. Here names don't matter, truths are optional, and flirting is a little too easy for two people who are absolutely not supposed to be talking.

[a desi college romance] Vijay and Nila have only one thing in common - they take the same bus at the same time everyday. What if this mere commonality steers their life into a whirlpool of uninvited feelings, wholesome conversations and unexpected connections, taking them on a ride they don't recall buying tickets for?

She came looking for a story. The story was looking for her. In the mountains of Pakistan lies Barzakhpur - a village that phases in and out of existence. A place where the fog lingers too long and the dead don't leave. Taniksha Shah rents an old haveli for creative solitude. Instead, she finds Aslan Ijaz - silent, severe, and far too watchful for a mere caretaker. He tells her not to leave after dark. He doesn't tell her he's chained himself to a bed every night to keep something inside him from reaching her. Because the entity wearing his bones has started to hate the way he looks at her. And in Barzakhpur, love is a weakness the dead do not forgive.