A year ago, Meera Shah and Aarav Mehta sat at a library table under a broken fan and fell in love. Then the MAT results came. Meera made it to IMI Rajasthan. Aarav didn't.
Now a thousand kilometres lie between them.
In Udaipur, Meera is finally stepping into her own light: the marketing club, the case competitions, a garba night that half the batch still talks about. At her side, always, is Rohan Malhotra. He's the Day 0 king, the placement committee's youngest star, and the most wanted man on campus. He's the boy who once almost kissed her in an empty seminar hall, and never asked.
He isn't waiting anymore.
In Bengaluru, Aarav takes an IT job he didn't choose for ₹3.5 lakh a year. He's up at 4:45 every morning, with his flashcards on a two-hour bus ride, chasing a 99.5 percentile he can't seem to reach. He does the arithmetic every night: her future salary, divided by his. Every night, the number gets bigger.
The calls get shorter. The silences get longer. And the things they never say start piling up.
Placed is Book Two of The Shortlist Series, a steamy, emotional new-adult romance about ambition, distance, betrayal and the price of wanting two things at once.
Content note: This book contains open-door sexual content between consenting adults, infidelity and strong language. Recommended for readers 18+.
