Karna’s Heir

In the opulent but stifling world of Rajasthani royalty, Princess Ananya Kumari Rathore, beautiful, fiercely proud of her lineage, and armed with a sharp wit, faced a loathsome arranged marriage. Her fiancé, Prince Bhanu Pratap, was an arrogant philanderer she despised. Desperate to escape, Ananya made a rebellious choice: she plucked Aryan, an ordinary engineer with his own dangerous secrets and a pressing need to disappear from gangsters, out of a city bar and into a audacious contract for a fake marriage.

Thrust into a life of unimaginable grandeur and ancient traditions, Aryan, now clad in expensive suits but still an outsider, found himself presented to Ananya’s formidable family at the majestic Suryagarh palace. The reception was brutally icy, with accusations of gold-digging and open mockery. As Ananya’s father and her actual fiancé attempted to bribe and threaten him into annulling the hasty union, Aryan clung to the contract, not just for the money, but because the palace walls offered an unlikely sanctuary. Their fragile alliance, born of mutual desperation, was about to be tested in the heart of a proud, powerful, and deeply unimpressed royal family. The game of deception had begun.