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She was born into a family that loved her.
She just didn't grow up with them.
Amara Yudhir was born on the same day she lost both her parents. Her mother, Tarini, died giving birth to her. Her father, Amar, died minutes later in a tragic accident while racing to reach his wife.
A court placed the newborn in the custody of her maternal grandmother.
And that decision changed the course of her life.
Raised under rules, restrictions and a grandmother who never quite saw her as a child of her own, Amara learns early not to ask for too much. By the time she is sent away to boarding school in Kodaikanal, she has already learned how to be quiet, obedient and self-sufficient.
Then she meets Isha.
For the first time, Amara has someone she can call home.
At eighteen, she leaves Kodaikanal for Chennai to chase the one dream that has always been hers-to become a doctor, and one day, a cardiac surgeon. Isha follows her, refusing to let her face the world alone.
But the past has never really let Amara go.
There is the Yudhir family-a sprawling joint family she is allowed to see for only a handful of days each year. Brothers who love her. Cousins who remember her. A family that has quietly kept a place for her, even when she didn't know how to ask for it.
And then there is Shivaay.
A boy from her childhood who grew up alongside those stolen days. A boy she never confessed her feelings to. A love neither of them ever named.
But Amara's story was never meant to be only about love.
Because somewhere between the house she grew up in and the family she was born into lies a secret her grandmother has spent years protecting.
This is not the story of a girl who was waiting to be saved.
This is the story of a girl who learned to save herself.
This is the story of a girl called Amara.