✨ Published debut fiction author. Still feels strange saying that out loud.

I live for the kind of stories that keep you up at night... where the air feels heavy, hearts beat faster, and you can't tell if you should trust the light or the shadows. Thriller, suspense - that's home for me. But love slips in too. Soft. Unexpected. Sometimes beautiful. Sometimes it hurts.

I like twisting the road until you can't see the end. Making you guess. Making you wrong. Then breaking your heart just when you think you're safe.

My debut novel, Lucid Lies, somehow found its way to #1 Best Seller in Fantasy & Supernatural Mysteries for Young Adults (India). That still feels unreal.

If you want more of the ride - the danger, the hope, the ache - just search Shyam Babu Lucid Lies. I'll be there, hiding between the words.