Shrapnels of Lavender
By Bhavika Kandra | Mar. 2026
Coming Soon
About the Book
My eyes are tired. Burning. Bloodshot.
Like the innocent blood he spilled.
Stop. Don’t go there. My eyes get all damp again.
Like my lips did after I kissed him.
Before you assume, this isn’t a story of forbidden love. It’s a story of a quiet collapse, a silent undoing of a girl who falls prey to her own expertise—the very instincts that once protected her are now slicing her open.
This is not the story of a girl who loved a monster, but of a girl who loved him in spite of the monster he was becoming, loved him enough to bend ethics, compromise morals, and rewire logic itself.
How do you reconcile the version of someone you knew with the version the world demands you to condemn? Because sometimes the hardest part isn’t what they did…it's what you still remember.
If this book feels uncomfortable, good.
It was never meant to be pretty.
About the Author
Bhavika Kandra is a final-year Mass Communication student at GITAM University, Hyderabad, India. She is a multi-disciplinary creative with a background spanning storytelling, performance, and content strategy. Combines artistic sensitivity with analytical precision to craft stories that are both visually compelling and emotionally grounded. Passionate about developing narratives that explore identity, memory, and human connection across media.
She heads TheGentalk podcast, a platform where she explores culture, identity, feelings, and the stories that connect us. Her background in media has sharpened her instinct for narrative detail and allowed her to weave both vulnerability and depth into her fiction.
This novel is her debut work—a raw, intimate exploration of trauma, love, and the aftermath of truth. With it, she steps into the literary world with a voice uniquely her own.
