Such a Perfect Family by Nalini Singh

Tavish Advani thought he’d finally outrun the life that made him dangerous. A fresh start. A fairy-tale romance. A whirlwind Vegas wedding to a woman from the kind of wealthy, respectable family that feels like a locked door to safety. For forty-three days, he gets to believe in the impossible: that love can rewrite a past soaked in suspicion.

Then everything burns.

A violent explosion tears through his in-laws’ home, leaving his new wife in a coma and her family all but annihilated. In the aftermath, the story writes itself—at least for the authorities. Tavish is the common thread in a trail of dead women, all of whom he once claimed to love. Tragedy follows him like a shadow, and this time the spotlight is unforgiving.

But Tavish knows the truth: he didn’t do this. And if he doesn’t prove it, he’ll lose more than his freedom—he’ll lose the only person who ever made him believe he could be more than his past.

With the investigation tightening around his throat, Tavish launches his own search for answers, digging into the fire, the secrets, and the people who had access to the “perfect” life he married into. What he finds is worse than guilt or innocence—it’s the realization that his wife’s picture-perfect family may have been a carefully staged illusion, built to hide something rotten at the core.

As Tavish peels back the layers, the case becomes a race: to clear his name, to survive the truth, and to figure out who wanted this family destroyed—and why he was set up to take the fall. Dark, tense, and impossible to put down, this is a thriller where love is the bait, respectability is the mask, and the past always finds a way to strike a match.