When art restorer Siya Kapoor returns to Delhi for her father's funeral, she comes home to a city she left three years ago and a grief she doesn't yet fully understand. Armaan Kapoor was a good man. She has always believed this. The weeks that follow will ask her to hold that belief against everything she is about to learn.
A phone call brings Karan Malhotra into her world. A former military investigator, carrying a loss of his own. Together they begin to uncover what Armaan Kapoor really was, and what was done to him ? and in doing so, each begins to understand something they had not expected to find.
What We Became is a novel about grief, about what we believe of the people closest to us, and about who we become when we finally see them ? and ourselves ? for what they are.

Kavya Vivek works at the intersection of ancient wisdom and contemporary life. Her writing ? poetry and fiction both ? begins with a single belief: that the oldest voices still have something urgent to say to the person alive right now. She works with AI as a creative instrument, guided by human editorial vision, and holds that where a story comes from matters far less than whether it arrives true.