THE KISS I COULDN'T TAKE BACK

THE KISS I COULDN'T TAKE BACK GenreReal-Life Drama / Marriage Heartbreak / Motherhood / Family Betrayal / Emotional SuspenseIntimate, devastating, tense, emotionally raw, psychologically painful, but ultimately hopeful.Sometimes heartbreak is not losing the person you love. Sometimes it is surviving long enough to discover that the tragedy destroying your family might have been preventable-and realizing that everyone you trusted has been hiding a different piece of the truth.Tagline"Everyone blamed the kiss. Then she found out who knew it was dangerous."Twenty-nine-year-old Meera Khanna believes the happiest day of her life has finally arrived when she gives birth to her daughter, Aarohi, at a private hospital in South Delhi.After years of wanting a child, Meera and her husband Karan finally have the family they dreamed about.Hours after Aarohi's birth, Karan's older sister, Riya, arrives.Riya is emotional, excited and completely in love with her newborn niece. She holds Aarohi against her chest and kisses her tiny face repeatedly.Meera notices something near the corner of Riya's mouth.A faint sore.She almost says something.She doesn't.Days later, a tiny blister appears beside Aarohi's eye.Then another.Soon Aarohi stops feeding.Her body stiffens.She begins having seizures.Doctors diagnose a devastating neonatal herpes infection affecting her brain.Suddenly, one ordinary family kiss becomes the center of everyone's grief.Karan blames Riya.Riya blames herself.And Meera blames the person she cannot escape: herself.But while Aarohi fights for her life, Meera begins discovering details that don't fit the family's version of what happened.Riya had apparently told someone about her cold sore before visiting.Someone had warned her not to kiss the baby.And someone inside the hospital knew she had done it.Yet nobody told Meera.The deeper Meera digs, the more devastating the truth becomes.Because what destroyed her family wasn't simply one careless kiss.It was a chain of silences-and the husband Meera trusted most may have started it.