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If Aisha’s story were a legally enforceable contract, Arjun would be hidden in its recitals–easily overlooked, almost irrelevant–unless sued for wrongful termination. That’s when you’d go back, looking for where it all began.

Aisha Kapoor-Carrington has always believed in control—over her choices, her ambitions, and most of all, her heart. It’s the only way she knows to survive a past defined by betrayal. Now, she uses that same cold precision to navigate the cutthroat halls of law school in London—until she meets the one man she can’t cross-examine.

Arjun Singh Rathore has never believed in restraint.

Drawn together by chance—and held there by something far more dangerous—their connection is immediate, undeniable, and impossible to define. He sees too much but shows nothing. She feels too deeply, yet holds herself back. Somewhere between late-night library sessions and charged silences, the line between friendship and something far more consuming begins to blur.

Because Arjun doesn’t just challenge her—he unravels her, pushing her past caution into something raw and irreversible. But when the ghosts of his past resurface, fracturing every perception she’s ever had of him, Aisha realizes that wanting him comes at a cost. One she is paying for, even five years later.

She should run. She should hide. But she’s held hostage by her feelings, by the obsession that ties her to him, even if it threatens to ruin her. Only, the more she peers into Arjun, the faster she sinks.

She’s only seen the ugly side to love. He’s lived through it.

He’s been here before.
Loved before.
Lost before.

Only this time, neither of them might survive their verdict.

In Bad Faith is a friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romance—brimming with angst, charged with heat, and complicated by the truth that when two’s a company and three’s a crowd, love rarely survives.

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I’m looking for a small group of beta readers who enjoy:
- angsty, slow-burn romance
- second-chance dynamics
- emotionally complex BIPOC characters
- stories where tension lives in what’s not said

I’m not looking for praise (although I won’t object to it); I’m looking for your insights. What worked, what didn’t, what stayed with you, and what didn’t quite land.

I am available to a critique swap of a story of the same/similar genre.

Hi Muskan, are u looking for paid betas?

I would love to be a beta! Lmk if your interested, I will do it free, and I’d love to read it!

hailey wrote: "I would love to be a beta! Lmk if your interested, I will do it free, and I’d love to read it!"
Hi! Are you still interested?

Muskan wrote: "If Aisha’s story were a legally enforceable contract, Arjun would be hidden in its recitals–easily overlooked, almost irrelevant–unless sued for wrongful termination. That’s when you’d go back, loo..."

Hi Muskan, I would love to beta-read your novel! My email is katarinadyck2003@gmail.com