The Glass In-Between

<p>Rhea grows up in a world that praises fairness and mocks girls like her: dusky soft-spoken easy to overlook. So when someone finally treats her with gentleness she mistakes it for safety for belonging for love. But when that trust shatters a quiet crack forms inside her the glass she will spend years learning how to hold without breaking.</p><p>College brings new friendships new routines and eventually Aditya a boy who makes her feel chosen again in stolen glances and warm conversations. Believing life is offering her a second chance Rhea steps toward it with all the courage she has left.<br/>But even the sweetest beginnings can hide shadows. And sometimes the people who feel like home turn into the storms we never see coming.</p><p><i>The Glass In-Between</i> is an intimate emotionally raw portrait of a girl who loves long after her heart has been bruised who grows through expectations guilt and the quiet ache carried by so many Indian women.</p><p>This story belongs to every girl who was told to adjust.<br/>Every woman who accepted crumbs and called it love.<br/>Every heart that learned too late that gentleness isn&rsquo;t always safety.</p>