The Groom's Best Mistake (Malhotra Chronicles Book 1)

Meera Kapoor has been in love with Veer Malhotra for five years. Five years of showing up at his family's haveli as his sister's best friend. Five years of watching him from across dinner tables and courtyard functions, of reading too much into small moments, of talking herself out of hope every single time. And now, in ten days, she is going to marry him - and she still doesn't know if he sees her as anything more than the girl who belongs to his world by association. Veer Malhotra has never been oblivious. Not once, not for a single day of the five years Meera spent convincing herself he doesn't notice her. He has noticed everything - the laugh that gets louder when she's nervous, the way she always saves the last bite for someone else, the way she looks at his family with love that is completely unperformative. He noticed. He made a choice. He stayed away because the world he comes from - mafia money, old loyalties, and violence underneath the surface - is not something a girl like Meera should have to carry. But now she is going to be his wife. Set against the magnificent chaos of a ten-day Indian wedding - haldi fights, sangeet dances, mehendi mornings, and seven pheras around a sacred fire - The Groom's Best Mistake is a story about two people who have spent five years standing on opposite sides of the same door. One knocking. One with his hand on the handle, not quite ready to turn it. Until, finally, he is.