Echoes of a Burning Heart

Some love stories begin with a spark. This one begins with a phone call at 2 AM.Six months ago, Aarav Malhotra made the worst decision of his life - he pushed away the only woman who ever made him feel alive. Dr. Meera Sharma, a brilliant criminal psychologist, walked out of his apartment and into a silence so absolute it nearly destroyed them both.Now, on a rain-soaked night in Mumbai, Meera calls from the abandoned observatory where they shared their first kiss. Her voice is shaking. Not from heartbreak - from fear.Someone is watching her.Someone who enters her locked apartment without leaving a trace. Someone who rearranges her books like a signature and leaves white lilies - funeral flowers - on her pillow. Someone who has studied her mind, her work, her theories on predatory obsession - and turned them into a blueprint for the most terrifying kind of love she has ever encountered.His name is Arjun Thakur. He was her student. He is brilliant, methodical, and utterly convinced that what he feels for her is not obsession - it is architecture. A structure of devotion so perfect, so complete, that she will have no choice but to inhabit it.As Aarav and Meera are pulled back into each other’s orbit - navigating the wreckage of their past, the fire of their present, and the shadow of a man who believes love can be engineered - they must confront the most dangerous question of all:Where does devotion end and destruction begin?Echoes of a Burning Heart is a dark, emotionally charged romantic suspense novel set against the backdrop of Mumbai - a story about the courage it takes to love without walls, the terror of being truly seen, and the devastating difference between a man who builds a cage and calls it love... and a man who opens a door and hopes you stay.This is not just a love story. This is a survival story. And the thing they’re surviving is each other.