The Wedding Planner's Worst Nightmare

"Rule #1 of luxury wedding planning: Never fall for the client & Rule #2: Especially when he’s the human equivalent of an Excel spreadsheet in a bespoke suit."

Kiara Bansal has eighty-hour workweeks, an allergy to boring ideas, and a mountain of old business debt she is fiercely determined to settle on her own terms. Landing the royal Singh wedding in Udaipur is the ultimate victory lap for her boutique agency, until she turns a palace corner and dumps an iced hazelnut latte straight down the chest of the hotel heir himself. Enter Rudra Singh: disciplined, impossibly brooding, and COO of his family’s hospitality empire. Rudra doesn’t do fairy tales, artistic whims, or emotional distractions. He believes in strict protocols, risk management, and keeping his life locked behind an impenetrable corporate fortress. To him, Kiara is an unpredictable hurricane in flat juttis who treats his five-star palace like her personal playground. To her, he’s an arrogant, micromanaging grump who desperately needs to learn how to smile. When wedding chaos, unseasonal storms, and late-night setups force them into close quarters across moonlit lake terraces, the friction between them turns scorching. Rudra thought he could calculate every outcome on a spreadsheet, until he realizes he never budgeted for the fiery woman who challenges every rule he’s ever written. Now Kiara faces her most dangerous crisis yet: giving the bride her dream celebration without losing her hard-won independence to the one man who makes her heart forget the agenda.