Book One · The LSBVerse
Love Swipe Blackmail
One swipe. One secret. One ruthless game of love, longing and betrayal.
Ravi has a loving partner, dependable friends and a promising future. Then one impulsive encounter with a dating app leaves behind a digital footprint; and someone is prepared to use it against him. What begins as a private temptation soon becomes a dangerous game of blackmail, friendship and deception.
Technology: dating apps & digital footprints · Human fault lines: desire, secrecy & loyalty · Stakes: intimate
About the Book
One swipe.
One secret.
One ruthless game.
About the Book
Ravi has everything; a loving relationship with Vandana, dependable friends and a promising future. But one moment of temptation leads him onto a dating app, leaving behind a digital trail he never expected anyone to find.
Someone does.
An anonymous blackmailer threatens to expose Ravi’s secret to Vandana. Desperate to protect their relationship, Ravi turns to his resourceful friends; but their intervention draws more people, hidden motives and conflicting loyalties into the game.
Ravi, however, is not the only one carrying a secret. Vandana is confronting a past she has never fully revealed, while an unexpected ally helps her face what she once left behind.
As the lives of three couples, two exes and two mysterious women collide, love gives way to suspicion, friendships are tested and the distinction between victim and deceiver begins to disappear.
Who is watching Ravi? And what do they really want?
Love Swipe Blackmail is a mystery thriller about temptation, intimate betrayal, digital exposure; and the friends who refuse to abandon one of their own.
Themes Explored
01
Trust in the Digital Age
Trust is no longer tested only by what partners do in person. The novel examines what private searches, dating profiles and digital relationships reveal—or conceal—about a relationship.
02
Temptation and Consequence
An action can feel harmless when it happens behind a screen. The story asks when curiosity becomes betrayal and how a momentary choice can create lasting consequences.
03
Friendship Under Pressure
When Ravi’s secret becomes dangerous, friendship becomes more than companionship. It becomes loyalty, resourcefulness and the willingness to stand beside someone without ignoring what they did.
04
Secrets, Blackmail and Intimate Power
A secret gives power to whoever controls its disclosure. The novel explores how shame, fear and blackmail can make people vulnerable even before money or violence enters the picture.
The people inside the conflict
Meet The Characters
Character 1
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Character 2
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Character 3
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Character 4
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Reader Reviews
Press Mentions
“A techno thriller with interesting sub-plots. The author has a crisp grip on writing.”
“A crisp plot, modern problems with a digital touch and an entertaining story.”
“The story has a digital touch to it. Makes one feel different emotions. A worth read.”
“A tale about relationships, love, feelings and vulnerability of human relationships in a cinematic twist.”
Book Details
Publisher
Anecdote Publishing House
Language
English
ISBN
978-8195251858
Format
Paperback & Kindle
Genre
Thriller & Suspense / Techno-Thriller
Continue the LSBVerse
Love Swipe Blackmail begins the LSBVerse with an intimate breach of trust: one impulsive swipe, one compromising digital trail and one secret that threatens to destroy a relationship.
But the consequences do not end with the blackmail. In Shadow Play: Love and Blackmail, familiar characters return as the conflict moves beyond private temptation into cyber breaches, ruined careers, corporate deception and national-security concerns.
The deception becomes more deliberate. The institutions become larger. And the stakes grow from intimate to institutional.
Frequently Asked Questions
Love Swipe Blackmail follows Ravi, whose seemingly secure relationship with Vandana is threatened after he ventures onto a dating app. When someone discovers his digital footprint and threatens to expose him, a private temptation becomes a dangerous game involving blackmail, secrets and friendship.
No, the plot and characters are fictional. However, the novel draws upon recognisable human behaviour: curiosity, temptation, secrecy, fear and the vulnerability created when private choices leave permanent digital traces. That emotional familiarity is probably why some readers have wondered whether the story was inspired by real events.
No character is directly based on one real person. Their personalities draw upon observations, conversations, familiar quirks and the ways people respond when relationships and reputations come under pressure. They are fictional characters, but their characteristics have been drawn from many recognisable human behaviours.
It is primarily a mystery thriller with strong elements of romance, friendship and interpersonal drama. The relationship gives the blackmail its emotional power, while the mystery, deception and unexpected turns drive the suspense.
The three words capture the chain of consequences at the centre of the story. Love creates something valuable to lose. A swipe introduces temptation and leaves a digital trail. Blackmail turns that private choice into a weapon in the hands of an opportunist individual.
Yes, but the novel is not really about an app. The dating app creates access, speed and secrecy; the consequences arise from the choices people make through it. Technology does not create temptation; it makes acting upon it easier and the resulting evidence harder to erase.
The novel explores intimate trust, digital relationships, temptation, secrecy, loyalty, blackmail and friendship under pressure. It also asks how much power we surrender when another person gains control over something we are ashamed to reveal.
Yes, it is Book One of the LSBVerse; the expanding fictional universe that continues in Shadow Play: Love and Blackmail. What begins with intimate deception in Book One develops into institutional conflict and larger technological stakes in Book Two.
Continue with Shadow Play: Love and Blackmail. Familiar characters and relationships return, but the conflict expands from dating apps and intimate blackmail to cyber breaches, damaged careers, corporate deception and national-security concerns.
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Begin with Love Swipe Blackmail
One swipe starts the LSBVerse. Read Book One, then continue into the larger conflict of Shadow Play.