Some families are built on love. Others are built on fragile foundations.
Dorian Miller has spent his life constructing order from chaos. Raised in a household shaped by silence, perfection, and emotional fractures, he learned early that stability must be engineered carefully-piece by piece.
His father, Richard, believes that discipline and design can control life's messiness. His mother, Rose, expresses the family's buried pain through art. His sister, Isla, refuses to pretend the cracks do not exist. Together they form a family that appears functional from the outside but carries unresolved fractures beneath the surface.
When a sudden crisis exposes a long-hidden secret connected to Richard's past, the delicate balance that has held the Miller family together begins to collapse. Old memories resurface, buried tensions ignite, and Dorian finds himself forced to question everything he believed about his childhood.
As the truth slowly emerges, Dorian must confront an unsettling realization: the life he thought he understood may have been carefully constructed to hide a deeper reality.
Standing among the fragments of his past, he faces a choice that will redefine his understanding of family.
Is it better to live within a comforting illusion...
or confront a truth that breaks everything?
The Broken Cube is a deeply emotional and thought-provoking novel about family secrets, identity, forgiveness, and the complicated architecture of human relationships.
About the Author :
Deepali Bakshi is a storyteller who finds beauty in emotions and the quiet corners of human connection. Her writing travels across genres-from contemporary romance to psychological fiction-capturing the unspoken layers of love, loss, and self-discovery.
Influenced by her love for K-Dramas and her natural instinct to read between the lines of human behavior, Deepali brings relatable, heartfelt characters to life. Love Me Like a K-Drama marks her first step into sharing her stories with the world, opening the door to many more journeys waiting to be told.
When she's not writing, Deepali can be found lost in K-Dramas, trying new crochet patterns, or experimenting in the kitchen-because creativity, for her, is a way of living.
