Hello, World!
Welcome
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.
About Parallel Heartbeats
At first glance, Parallel Heartbeats looks like a love story.
It has romance.
It has heartbreak.
It has moments that make your heart race.
But beneath all of that, it's really about something else.
It's about finding the people who become your safe place.
The friends who walk into your life unexpectedly and leave fingerprints on your soul.
The ones who laugh with you until your stomach hurts, sit beside you when words aren't enough, and quietly change the way you see yourself.
The ones who teach you that family isn't always the one you're born into.
Sometimes, it's the one you choose.
If you've ever loved your friends so fiercely that they became part of who you are...
If you've ever wondered whether you'll find people who truly see you...
Or if you've already found them and simply want to celebrate that kind of love...
Then I hope Parallel Heartbeats feels like coming home.
Because sometimes the greatest love story isn't about finding the one.
It's about finding your people.
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.
Parallel Heartbeats
A few lines from the book
Like sunflowers turning quietly toward each other after sunset, some hearts continue carrying the light they once shared.
Power, Ash was starting to understand, had a way of making love feel like something you couldn't quite afford.
"I keep waiting for this to feel less unreal," she said, not turning around. "You being here. Standing in the same room as me."
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About The Author
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.