Description
The Entangled Fragments II: The Half That Burned is a high‑velocity sci‑fi romance about choosing which world to save when loving someone means setting another life on fire.
In the wake of a failed containment, cities stutter between timelines and whole days vanish like ash on the tongue, leaving only scorch‑marks where memories should be. A covert syndicate wants the anomaly sealed, a visionary wants it weaponized, and the only map left is the heat trail between two people who remember each other differently in every world.
To close the wound—or open it wide enough to survive—Liam and Jae must hack a godlike algorithm, steal a city’s heartbeat, and decide whether the version of them that burns brightest deserves to live. For readers who like multiverse thrills welded to aching intimacy, this sequel raises the stakes without spoiling book one while standing on its own hook‑conflict‑stakes arc.
Balaji Muthukumar writes high-velocity, high-heart fiction that lives where tenderness meets danger—intimate love stories set inside big, propulsive worlds. His novels range from slow-burn campus rivalries and social intrigue to near-future sci‑fi epics and multi-verse romances, but they all share the same DNA: fierce women, flawed men learning to be worthy, found family under pressure, and vows that cost something to keep.
A lifelong architect of character and consequence, Balaji builds narratives like engineered bridges—elegant, load‑bearing, and built to make readers feel the drop in their stomach and still take the step. His work blends lyrical prose with thriller pacing, weaving themes of redemption, moral courage, and love that chooses responsibility over performance. Expect sharp dialogue, cinematic set‑pieces, and endings that feel inevitable in the best way—earned, not granted.
Off the page, he is an obsessive craft nerd, equal parts structure and soul, who believes stories should leave readers braver than they arrived. When not drafting at unreasonable hours, he’s collecting first lines, walking off last chapters, and perfecting the long, quiet look between two people who finally tell the truth.
If you love emotionally intelligent romance threaded through big stakes—professors with secrets, kings without crowns, rebels with kinder weapons, and universes held together by a promise—Balaji’s books will keep the lamp on and the pages turning.