Sapphic Fiction · South Asia

Keep your eyes on.

Quiet sapphic love stories set in India — about family, secrecy, and the long walk toward being known.

This is The Second Cup — a novella of the time before Volume 1 of the Bound by Mumbai series. This is a gift for you, and your introduction to the world of Bound by Mumbai.

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Who I am

I write the women who run, and the ones who keep the light on and wait.

I write sapphic literary fiction set in South Asia — slow-burn stories about women who have spent their whole lives being careful, and the one person who finally makes that impossible.

A series of 10 books and a prequel novella.

My debut novel, Priya's Surrender, is the first book in the Bound by Mumbai series — published by Cindermere.

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Ten years of dawn coffees on the same sea wall. One night that almost changed everything. The story of Priya and Shanti, before Priya's Surrender begins.

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I'll send one email to confirm it's really you — it's the law here, and also just good manners. If it doesn't turn up within a few minutes, look in your spam folder; new senders often land there. After that, I write rarely, and only when there's something true to say.

Book cover: Priya's Surrender by Meera Kane — two women at a Mumbai sea wall at dawn, Bound by Mumbai Book One

Bound by Mumbai · Book One

Priya's Surrender

By day, Priya Sharma runs one of Mumbai's biggest ad floors like she was born to it. By night, she is starving for something she can't name — the relief of setting the weight down, of being, for one stolen hour, completely undone.

The one steady thing in her life is Shanti: photographer, oldest friend, the person who brings two cups of coffee to the dawn sea wall and has been waiting, without a word, for ten years.

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