Garden Of Thorns: In the garden of betrayals, only the thorns remember
Aria Maheshwari walked away from everything—her past as a undercover CBI officer, as the daughter of a powerful family, and the chaos of Delhi—seeking peace in a quiet town of Himachal Pradesh. But peace ends the day a letter arrives from her best friend, Ruhani Roy, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Inside the envelope a photo with a stranger and an address.
At that location, Aria discovers a bloodied teenage girl named Vidya clutching two newborn twins. She claims Ruhani has been missing for five days after going to meet the lover she hadn’t seen in nearly a year. Following Ruhani’s last instructions, Vidya begs Aria for her help.
Aria takes the twins under her care and begins to investigate. Her trail leads back to the Rajvanshi family—wealthy, powerful, and dangerous. Ruhani’s lover? Ahaan Rajvanshi, the only heir of the empire.
Determined to make him pay for what she believes he did to Ruhani, Aria agrees to a marriage arranged by her parents, tying herself to the very man she intends to destroy.
But the truth is far more twisted.
The twins don’t belong to Ahaan. They belong to Rudra Rajvanshi, Ahaan’s elder twin—a ghost the family erased.
For generations, the Rajvanshis have hidden their firstborn twins, subjecting them to brutal training and illegal experiments, molding them into weapons stripped of identity and love. Rudra was one of them—until he vanished.
Ahaan is tormented by his brother’s disappearance, and when Aria arrives with the children, his world tilts. There’s something familiar in Aria’s fierce protectiveness… something Rudra once described about the girl he loved in secret.
As their reluctant partnership deepens, an undeniable attraction simmers—complicated by guilt, suspicion, and buried grief.
Their fragile trust shatters when someone tries to kidnap the elder twin, triggering a confrontation that unearths secrets both have fought to keep hidden.
With danger closing in and the Rajvanshi family desperate to reclaim the child and preserve their legacy, Aria and Ahaan must decide where their loyalties lie. In a world where love is treated as weakness and survival comes at a brutal cost, they’ll need more than truth to protect the innocent—they’ll need each other.
Determined to protect the children and avenge her bestfriend, Aria agrees to a strategic marriage with Ahaan, only to uncover a deeper truth: the twins aren't his, but his long-lost elder brother — Rudra's, a hidden weapon shaped by the Rajvanshi family's dark legacy.
As danger closes in and truths unravel, Aria and Ahaan must face their haunted pasts, forbidden emotions, and the deadly price of love in a family where survival means betrayal and innocence is the most dangerous secret of all.
This is my first ever story, before this I have always been just a reader and although I have always weaved many stories in my head, I have never dared to write it down because of my lack of talent in literacy. If this story is lacking in any way please feel free to comment your opinions and help me be a better writer. It would be highly appreciated if the tone used is gentle. ( 〃▽〃)