Rangoli of the Heart

Engaged to a stranger in two days. Falling for the artist painting her rangoli.

Lina Merchant has two days before her engagement party and an estate running on borrowed time. The Merchant fortune is gone, the creditors are circling, and the only life raft left is a merger with the influential Mehta family — sealed by a marriage to a man she has never met.

Then the decor firm folds, and Devan Kapoor walks into the courtyard with turmeric-stained hands, a critic’s eye and an artist’s certainty about how the house should look. He is everything the Merchant world is not: direct, unfashionable and impossible to dismiss.

As the two of them mix pigments, string garlands and build a rangoli across the limestone floor, Lina finds the partnership she was promised in marriage but never offered in fact. But the Merchant and Kapoor names carry an old wound, and the festival of lights has a way of illuminating exactly what families would rather leave in the dark.

What’s inside

• A forbidden-love, arranged-marriage romance set in Ahmedabad
• An interior designer, an artist and one unforgettable festival of lights
• Family secrets, an estate on the brink and a love worth defying tradition for

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