Heartbreak: Story of Sita
Book One of Throne in Exile

The fire proved her innocent. The crown made her queen. But dharma, Ayodhya learns, does not always ask what it costs.

Three months after their coronation, Ram and Sita rule a kingdom rebuilt from exile and war — prosperous, celebrated, and quietly unraveling. A whisper in the palace becomes a question the court cannot unask: can a woman who survived captivity in Lanka ever truly come home? As Kaikeyi moves old grief into new strategy and Ram is pulled between love and the honor code that made him king, Sita must decide what she is willing to sacrifice — and what she will no longer explain.

Drawing on the Ramayana's oldest silences, Heartbreak gives voice to the queen history remembered as an ideal and forgot as a person. Told through the eyes of those who loved her — and one who has waited generations to set the record straight — this is the story Sita never got to tell the gurus herself.

For readers of mythological retellings that ask not what the epic says, but what it leaves out.

Praise for the book: https://hyphenplay.com/books/heartbreak