🏆Grand Fiction Award: Shortlisted🏆 When a call from police brings the news of a friend's sudden death, Ruhi and Aarush are pulled into a spiral of grief, betrayal, and secrets. As love and obsession blur into one, they must decide how much truth they can carry, and how much lies are to bury forever.

In the shadows of a market that thrives on secrets, A woman makes a deal. A dream is reborn. But the price? It's never what you think. Enter Chhaya Bazaar, where bargains are struck in silence, And the Soul Trader always gets his due. Proceed with caution... Once you've traded, you can never return.

Ananya and Ishaan never planned to adopt. But when they find a mute child abandoned in the depths of the forest, something about him calls to them-an eerie, unspoken bond that neither can explain. The child never speaks, never cries. He only watches. But then, Ananya stumbles upon old photographs hidden in their attic-photographs of the same child, decades before he was ever found. As whispers of the past begin to unravel, their world tilts into something unrecognizable. The boy isn't just lost. He isn't just silent. He is a reflection of something they were never meant to see. And now that they have, he isn't letting go. A chilling psychological thriller that blurs the lines between reality and nightmare.