"One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die.However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find is they are not always with whom we spend our lives"― Beau Taplin, Hunting SeasonThe above quote is at the core of the proposed novel. The story starts with the scene of a young man sitting amongst a pile of fallen leaves on an autumn afternoon. He looks around and can relate his life to those leaves. Both had the similar destiny of not being able to go back from where they fell and had to just wait patiently for the inevitable end, getting trampled on the way.The next paragraph introduces us in the present day to the main protagonist of the story "Rohan Chatterjee" who introduces himself as a successful individual with a stable business, a complete family including two kids and an extremely loving and caring wife. On the outset, life just looks to be perfect. Deep within, this guy still feels a void. The completeness of his life is still incomplete.Rohan then introduces himself as the same guy who was amongst the fallen leaves 18 years ago. The story then pans back to 18 years, to where it started. To the times when Rohan hated love and could never imagine falling for it due to a past event involving the loss of his closest friend when this friend had failed in love and given up his life. Rohan was from a good family, was a bodybuilder, had charming looks, was a good academician and was already earning as one of the topmost freelancers around the place he lived in. All this combined together made him desirable and he had no issues finding girls to get in bed with him. One day, he encounters a girl on internet chat who happens to match his sense of humor and wit until she suddenly disappears. The lack of closure draws him to the chatroom for the next days and they soon start regular meetings. Rohan keeps getting drawn to the girl because of her brilliance and smartness. They continue chatting for hours over the next few months and become great friends, friends who could just talk about everything without hesitations; friends who were like a confession box to each other. Finally, they meet each other and confess their love. From there starts for the first time the emotional journey of Rohan and Tanya (the other protagonist). It was new to both of them. Despite of their emotional bonding, they try to maintain the transparency their friendship had. The novel takes us on a journey of the two lovers.The entire set of events are mostly in dialog form or narrated by Rohan in first person. The events starting from the first time of holding hands, their first kiss, making love, being together, being inseparable, their differences and finally Tanya's decision to quit the relationship leaving Rohan stranded on the fateful autumn afternoon. Hence, the story ends exactly where it started. With the difference; the first paragraph of the novel is in 2nd person while the last is the same, but in 1st person (Rohan's).The novel aims to highlight each small feeling and emotion the couple experience in order for the readers to relate them to their own lives. It is a new age romance fiction and people reading stories of this genre should easily be able to relate to the characters. It is certain to remind everyone of how love starts, the joys of it, the pains of it, the lives before and after. Let us all fall in love with love once more!
