Characters enter a legal union for mutual benefit, only to find their "fake" feelings becoming dangerously real.
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8 South Asian Novels About Falling in Love - Electric Literature Characters enter a legal union for mutual benefit,
Kabir has proof that Janani’s late husband died in a road accident while leaving a brothel—a secret her in-laws buried. He offers her a choice: run away with him to his new restaurant in Pondicherry, or stay and rot as a “pure” widow. But Janani has a secret too—she’s been slowly poisoning her controlling mother-in-law’s tea with oleander leaves, not to kill, but to make her weak enough to stop the wedding. He offers her a choice: run away with
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