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Hello, and thank you for finding your way here.
I'm Ashritta Saran — and Parallel Heartbeats, my debut novel, is finally out in the world. It's a story I carried for a long time, and now that it's here, I'm still somewhere between nervous and grateful that you're reading this.
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Debut Novel · Out Now
Parallel Heartbeats
Like sunflowers turning quietly toward each other after sunset, some hearts continue carrying the light they once shared.
Ash and Aaryan found each other too young — loving through distance, ambition, and the weight of growing up before they were ready. Spanning years, countries, and second chances, this is a story about first love, impossible timing, and the quiet ways people stay with us long after life moves on.
About Me
I was trained originally as a dentist and later as a public health researcher, spending over a decade working across countries, institutions, and cultures — a professional life defined by evidence, data, and rigour.
My fiction comes from somewhere else entirely: the quieter spaces that data can't reach, where restraint becomes devotion and silence becomes its own language.
Parallel Heartbeats is my debut novel — the story of Ash and Aaryan, two people who meet as teenagers in Lucknow and are shaped permanently by a love that doesn't follow the usual rules of romance. Drawn from a real relationship in my own life, the book is less an act of invention than one of preservation — an attempt to honour a love that shaped both the person and the professional I became.
This is my first novel, written in the space between a career built on evidence and a story that could only be told in fiction.