When Sandeep a twenty two years aged guy who was very much aspiring to become a police officer was blackmailed by a very rich person in the same village Sudarshan to marry his daughter Sameera otherwise he would start legal proceedings to grab his house for the loan taken by Sandeep's father, Sandeep did not know what to do. He was the only offspring to his parents and his both parents were late. He knew that his father has taken that loan to construct their house but he did not know whether he cleared it fully or not. What surprised him and shocked him was, that Sudarshan was not just a good character but a good friend to his father while he was alive but why he was pestering him like that? Even though Sameera was his childhood friend, later on she became haughty and stopped even talking with Sandeep but she also was ready and willing to marry him. Sandeep would not have much objection to marry Sameera who was very beautiful if she were not in quite intimate terms with Rajesh who was their college mate and her marriage also was settled with him but cancelled later on. He just did not know why a very rich person Sudarshan determined that much to make only him the husband of his daughter, why the marriage of Sameera and Rajesh was cancelled, how Sameera who was very much intimate and in love with Rajesh could forget about him and wanted to marry him. What shocking facts he came to know in the process of knowing the answers to his questions is the story of the novel 'Shadow in the Mirror.