Priya's Surrender — out 21 September 2026 · pre-order now

Sapphic Fiction · South Asia

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Quiet sapphic love stories set in India — about family, secrecy, and the long walk toward being known.

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Who writes these books

I write the women who run, and the ones who keep the light on and wait.

Meera Kane writes literary sapphic fiction set in contemporary India — slow-burn love stories about family, secrecy, shame, and the long walk toward being known. Meera Kane is the author of Bound by Mumbai, a ten-volume series published by Cindermere.

The books are closed-door romances by deliberate choice. The tension lives in what isn't said.

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Cover of Priya's Surrender by Meera Kane — two women at a Mumbai sea wall at dawn

Bound by Mumbai · Book One

Priya's Surrender

A Sapphic Slow-Burn Romance

By day, Priya Sharma runs one of Mumbai's biggest ad floors like she was born to it. By night, she is starving for something she can't name — the relief of setting the weight down, of being, for one stolen hour, completely undone.

The one steady thing in her life is Shanti: photographer, oldest friend, the person who brings two cups of coffee to the dawn sea wall and has been waiting, without a word, for ten years.

Out 21 September 2026 · pre-order now

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Ten years of dawn coffees on the same sea wall. One night that almost changed everything. The story of Priya and Shanti, before Priya's Surrender begins.

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I'll send one email to confirm it's really you — it's the law here, and also just good manners. If it doesn't turn up within a few minutes, look in your spam folder; new senders often land there. After that, I write rarely, and only when there's something true to say.