Trigger Warning: This story contains sensitive themes including sexual assault, marital rape, and legal injustice. Reader discretion is advised.

This is not just a story. It's a reflection. A scream. A truth hidden in fiction.

In India, a woman is expected to fight in silence. If she screams, she's shamed. If she stays, she's praised. If she fights back, she's punished.

We live in a country where marital rape is still not a crime.
Where courtroom decisions often depend more on social status than justice.
Where a woman's character is on trial before her case even begins.

Guilty But His Wife is fictional—but it's real in the soul of every girl who has ever been made to feel unsafe, unheard, or unworthy.

This story is for the sisters who became mothers too soon,
for the daughters who had to carry the burden of dignity,
for the women who are tired of being told to 'adjust.'

Kriti is not one woman. She is every woman.
Her silence echoes through our homes, our courts, our news channels.

And Ranveer? He is the man we hope exists—one who listens, believes, and stands up without asking for anything in return.

I've poured every heartbreak, every rage-filled silence, and every ounce of faith into this book.

If this story makes you uncomfortable, angry, or tearful—good. That means we're finally listening.

— With all my voice,
AashnaWrites18