The series
Books by Meera Kane
Bound by Mumbai is a ten-volume closed-door sapphic romance series set in contemporary India, published by Cindermere.
The series follows Priya Sharma and Shanti — an advertising creative director and a photographer — from a dawn sea wall in Bandra to the life they eventually build in daylight. It is told in three parts, and it can be started at Priya's Surrender, which is Volume One.
A free prequel novella, What We Never Said at Dawn, is available to newsletter readers and is a good way in if you'd rather try before you buy.
Prequel novella
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Novella
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Ten years of dawn coffees on the same sea wall. One night that almost changed everything. Priya and Shanti, before Priya's Surrender begins.
Part One
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Volume 1
Out nowA creative director who has built a whole life around needing no one, and the oldest friend who has been waiting, without a word, for ten years.
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Volume 2
Out nowYoung Priya
The years before — Priya in her early twenties, and the shape the running first took.
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Volume 3
23 Nov 2026At twenty-five, Priya leaves the agency that taught her to read a man's face before trusting her own judgment, and sets out to become impossible to dismiss. Only Sunday dawn at the sea wall asks nothing of her, until the friend who waits there says it out loud: you disappear in instalments.
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Volume 4
Late Dec 2026Home from Goa, raw from the almost with Shanti, Priya builds a second, anonymous city inside the first: rented rooms, borrowed names, a night of obedience that asks nothing of her. It works, until it becomes a system, and the one friendship that wants everything begins to slip.
Part Two
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Volume 5
Late Jan 2027Before she carried two cups to the sea wall, Shanti was the loud girl from the house with the always-open door. A borrowed camera, a Sunday over breakfast, a season of not belonging at her own table, and a city that takes her in: the other half of the bond, told from the inside.
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Volume 6
Coming
Kiran
Part Three
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Volume 7
Coming
In Full Daylight
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Volume 8
Coming
Diwali
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Volume 9
Coming
No Burden
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Volume 10
Coming
The Gathered Life
Free for readers
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