Some moments change everything. Some secrets cost more than you can afford to pay.
Maya Sharma has a plan. A ten-year plan, a research seminar, and a desk she treats like a promise to herself. She does not plan for Aarav Mehta - basketball star, campus golden boy, the boy who needs her in the third row of every match just to find his quiet.
Riya Kapoor has a secret. Not a small one. The kind that lives in your chest for a year and four months and gets heavier every day you choose not to speak it.
One Friday night at Westbrook University, all three of them end up somewhere they were not supposed to be. A bar in the old city. A park bench under a bare gulmohar tree. A card game that goes one round too far.
By Saturday morning, a twelve-second video has gone viral. By Sunday, something that took two years to build is over. And the lie that holds the silence together is already starting to cost more than anyone expected.
Between Love and Dreams is a story about the things we want and the things we protect, about friendship tested to its limit, about the specific, quiet courage it takes to choose yourself when everything else is falling apart.
For readers who loved the slow burn of second chances, the ache of almost, and stories that stay with you long after the last page.