SHADOWS OF ADULTHOOD
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"They vanish before eighteen. And someone's turning their birthdays into grave markers."
When a string of teenage girls are murdered just months before their 18th birthday - eyes missing, bodies staged like symbolic art - the media calls it a coincidence. The police call it suicide.
But the government knows better. And so, SOU is activated. An elite task force formed from Intelligence Bureau's most dangerous minds - led by the ruthless Purvi Malhotra and the volatile Kavin Khanna. Joined by a forensic prodigy, a hacker who jokes in chaos, a mind-reader, and a pathologist who speaks to the dead - they are the last line before law collapses. As the team races against time, patterns emerge. Secrets surface. And the killer... watches them back.What happens when the line between adulthood and annihilation is marked in blood?
"18 isn't freedom. It's the countdown."
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