Writers are dangerous people.
We spend hours inventing lives that never existed, falling in love with characters who will never walk into the room, and fighting battles that end the moment we close the laptop. But the greatest danger? Sometimes our stories bleed into reality.

This book is about two such writers — Shalini and Krish. On the surface, they’re competitors, rivals whose names often appeared in the same shortlists, literary debates, and publishing rumors. She believed in careful plotting, he believed in reckless inspiration. She thought he was arrogant, he thought she was stubborn. And then fate, or perhaps the literary gods decided to play editor-in-chief of their lives.

When they are forced to co-author a romance novel after winning a joint contest, the battle of words becomes a battle of hearts. Between coffee-stained drafts, midnight brainstorming sessions, and the kind of arguments only writers can have over a single sentence, something unexpected begins to grow: vulnerability, intimacy, and maybe even love.

But behind every polished page is a rough draft. Both Shalini and Krish carry heartbreaks they’ve hidden from the world, secrets that make them terrified of writing their own happily-ever-after. And just when they think they’ve figured out their story, real life edits it in ways neither of them saw coming.

CO-WRITTEN isn’t just about romance on the page, it’s about discovering the courage to live it off the page too.

So, welcome, dear reader. Pour yourself a cup of coffee, grab a pen, and step into a world where enemies can become co-authors, rivals can become lovers, and the hardest story to write is the one we dare to live.