Shadows of Lust: Murder in the Night (eBook, ePUB)

Seeking a better life, Indian IT consultant Sandy Nair achieves his dream of migrating to Australia, eventually settling into a good job in Melbourne after initial struggles and dangerous encounters in Sydney. Meanwhile, back in India, Vineeta Nair endures a tumultuous college romance with the possessive Nandan Khan, resulting in a pregnancy forcefully aborted by her devout parents. Seeing Sandy as her ticket to Australia, Vineeta hides her past and manipulates him into an arranged marriage. Despite Sandy‘s parents learning of her history, Sandy marries her, blinded by her perceived innocence and pressured by her dramatic declarations of love and threats of suicide.Once in Melbourne, Vineeta quickly becomes dissatisfied with her passionless marriage to Sandy, especially after Nandan arrives on a work assignment and they reignite their affair behind Sandy‘s back. Sandy eventually discovers the infidelity, leading to a violent confrontation and a toxic stalemate where neither will grant the other an easy divorce. Vineeta becomes pregnant again, likely by Nandan, further poisoning the marriage. After a failed attempt to kill Sandy during a staged accident on the Great Ocean Road and a subsequent faked suicide attempt, Vineeta and a returned Nandan conspire to murder Sandy.