The Heaven

The City of Pillars

★ 4.6

Iram Haider, a young Kashmiri writer, returns home to Srinagar after a decade of exile, and is instantly thrown into the vortex of the valley. In a heaven surrounded by hell, where bombs go off as naturally as Chinars bloom, she meets Atharva Singh Kaul again. The soldier who had left her after saving her life, the boy whose holy book she still carries. Hurled into Atharva’s political life, Iram finds herself at the centre of his party, writing his speeches, resisting hatred against her father and despite everything, falling in love with the gallant man who says that he will be the next CM. But this election season, Kashmir’s governance is not the only agenda at stake. An old woven conspiracy is coming to pass. One that will destroy the already shattered pieces of this land. As Jammu & Kashmir gear up for its biggest election, Iram weighs in a balance against their homeland. And it is Atharva who has to choose — keep the woman he loves, or forsake her for the land he has promised to save. AN ELECTION. A WRITER. A POLITICIAN. WILL THEY ALTER THE FATE OF KASHMIR?

The Space in Between

★ 4.6

Iram Haider, the young Kashmiri writer, is back in Srinagar. But with her fractured body and messed up mind, she struggles to reclaim her old life. As her book launch approaches and the love of her life drifts away, she grapples with the pieces that remain. But only if the demons of Kashmir politics left her alone. As predators loom large, Iram finds shelter in the most unwanted of places — Atharva Singh Kaul. The man she has been fighting, whose passion has begin to burn as hot as his rage. But even as he crusades to hunt for his missing friend, bring her father’s treason to light, and run his final rallies, Iram cannot hate him. As Jammu & Kashmir’s election season comes to its finale, the results become the least of their concerns. Iram rises to her full potential, Atharva takes the most difficult decisions, and just like that, they are poised at the beginning of something big, something new. The question is, will they take the leap? A CONSPIRACY. A CONTROVERSY. AN OATH. WILL THEY SOLIDIFY THIS NEW FATE OF KASHMIR?

Beyond This Heaven

★ 4.5

A romantic journey that explores what happens after the initial bliss of a heavenly connection wears off. Iram Haider Kaul is missing. The writer-turned-Chief Minister’s wife has vanished without a trace, leaving behind a fragile peace in Kashmir, a world teetering on the edge, and an infant son in the arms of her husband, Atharva Singh Kaul. As militants rise to reclaim a land barely healing, Atharva struggles to balance his role as a single father and the leader of Jammu & Kashmir. The man who once seemed unstoppable is now on the brink of unraveling. But it’s not just Kashmir falling apart — it’s the memories of what they built together. Two years of triumph and tragedy flash before him — from intimate nights in Mumbai and London to unraveling truths in Yorkshire and Jammu, from courting alliances to uncovering long-buried secrets about Iram’s past and Sufiyaan Sheikh’s birth, secrets that almost tore them apart. Those years shaped their love, their family, their fight. And now, that time feels stolen. Until one call changes everything. A glimmer of hope, a dangerous lead. Torn between his duty to his son, his people, and the woman he cannot lose, Atharva faces his greatest battle yet. The only difference is, he is not a man on his own anymore. Will he still jump across the barbed wire for the heaven that is his home? A MISSING WOMAN. A FRANTIC MAN. A FRACTURED LAND. WILL THEY RECLAIM THE FATE OF KASHMIR? "After the mysteries of The City of Pillars and their unravelling in The Space in Between, it is time Atharva and Iram face the whole truth and nothing but the truth in this thrilling, swoon-worthy sequel to the acclaimed Kashmiri political romance saga -- The Heaven Series."

The Circle of Exile

★ 4.8

Iram Haider Kaul is adrift. She has lost her identity, her husband, her children — and yet, even from that hollowed state, she defies borders, lights her lamps against the dark, and steels the crumbling walls inside her. Just as she begins to climb out of the ruins, fate brings Atharva Singh Kaul crashing back into her life. The husband she had abandoned. The Chief Minister who has walked through heaven and hell to reclaim her. What begins as love clawed back from the impossible, hides a truth she never dreamed of — the son she believed stillborn lives. As Kashmir struggles in the aftermath of upheaval, Iram must step once more into the house she fled. She must rebuild a marriage on the brink, learn to mother an infant who does not recognise her, and work to trust the man who never stopped searching for her. But every bloom she clutches comes shadowed with a price. The lines she crossed have left enemies circling, and vultures now hover over her husband’s chair. As friends splinter into foes and the same people who crowned him now pull him down, Atharva faces his most dangerous season in power. And Iram, who thought her exile was over, finds herself cast into a new one. From Nagar to Srinagar to Shimla, between Amritsar, Delhi and Rishikesh — is there an end to this circle of exile? A LOST MOTHER. A FLAILING FATHER. A KINGDOM IN PERIL. WILL COMING HOME COST THEM THEIR HOME? “When every secret is out and the dust has settled over The City of Pillars, The Space in Between, and Beyond This Heaven, Atharva and Iram must face the hardest truth of all — each other. Power, passion and politics collide in this gripping, swoon-worthy continuation of The Heaven Series.”

A Fortress of Windows

★ 5.0

Dr. Samar Dixit, an ex-military trauma surgeon, has seen life’s cruelest theatre — enemy captivity, brutal torture, betrayal, and the gruesome end of the comrade dearest to him. And then life shows him how cruel it can truly get. One of the four founding pillars of a rising political force in Jammu & Kashmir, Samar has sealed that earlier man — his wounds, his memories, and the tools of his old life — inside the highest tower of his heart. A politician and protector now, he lives in the valley’s shadows. By day he helps steer a party determined to reshape Kashmir’s future. By night he trains the silent militia that keeps its founders alive. Into that silence, where nothing but static echoes, walks Amaal Durrani. London-returned media whisperer, brimming with conviction and bright enough to light up a party in a strife-torn state — she is the girl he never sees coming. A decade younger, stubbornly hopeful, and armed with words where others reach for weapons, she is everything Samar has come to distrust. Through dusty municipal elections and long evenings spent in Jammu’s streets, between reckless video game battles and gym sessions where restraint becomes its own kind of war, her voice begins to slip through the static inside him. Beneath the calm of his civil garb, beneath the betrayal that hardened him, stirs a quiet need — the need to let her in. But Samar Dixit is a man built from old wars. And fortresses do not have windows. When his past rises again, when Kashmir moves forward but he remains trapped in the ruins of his sins, will Amaal dare to open one — even when the man inside sits ready to destroy it all? A FORTRESS. A WINDOW. A MAN WHO WILL NOT OPEN THE DOOR. CAN SUNLIGHT BREACH A HEART BUILT FOR WAR?