Triveni wakes up in a hospital bed with no memories of her previous life. On talking to the doctor , she realises that she had been a coma patient there for 6 whole months .
And also that a person's life is not as priceless as people claim it to be -cue , the enormous price of the hospital bills.
And who paid the huge price for her? A brother she could not remember - who seemed to be heavily diassapointed in her for some reason . But no one seems to want to tell her the why she had been admitted in the first place...
Now in debt , her brother leaves for Banglore in search of work , while dropping Triveni off at a small hall- kitchen apartment in Mumbai, which seems more than familiar. The days pass by learning things for her survival - cooking, traversing to nearby stores , navigating the town , until she meets Kusha and Lailita , two girls her same age who claim to be her childhood friends. As Triveni begins to uncover her past along with them ,she realises it was not what she had expected....
And the apartment is strange . The nights seem twice as long , and Triveni can't sleep a bit. Buzzing sounds , echoing voices calling out her name, someone crying silently, harsh shouts, amidst the unusually quiet nights of the city. And the apartment takes her to places - ones she never wanted to visit.. There's also an old cell phone she found in the table's drawer the day she moved in , which she can't switch on. And she knows somehow - that it contains all the things she needs to know about her past...
Emmy's life is going just as she'd planned: She's living in her own apartment, dancing every day and is just leaps away from being named her company's next Prima ballerina. And she's only 17. But all of Emmy's plans come to a screeching halt when the FBI shows up at her door to let her know that she's being stalked by a serial killer. Suddenly, the safe, insulated world she created for herself is riddled with violence, fear...and a growing pile of dead bodies. At first Emmy wants nothing more than to forget her chilling new reality - but her admirer isn't finished with her yet, and before she knows it, Emmy's stuck in a nightmare she can't dance her way out of.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains detailed scenes of murder, rape, torture, sex and stalking, which may be triggering for some readers.
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