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Rhea Kulkarni buys a blank leather diary from a pavement seller on Bangalore's Avenue Road for eighty rupees. The next morning, there is an entry in it, dated tomorrow, in her own handwriting: "Don't get on the 8:15 metro." She gets on anyway. By the end of the week the diary is predicting things that haven't happened yet — and it has started crossing out entries and rewriting them, as if someone else is fighting her for the pen. An original thriller where every choice splits the story, and readers write the other futures.

Every passenger on the Kalka–Shimla toy train knows the story of Tunnel 33 at Barog, and of the British engineer who never finished it. Nobody knows why the last train of the night now enters the tunnel with eleven passengers and comes out with twelve. When a retired railway clerk's granddaughter finds her grandfather's 1987 logbook, she discovers the extra passenger has been riding for decades — and has started asking for her by name. An original mystery set in the hills of Himachal Pradesh.

Every night at 2 AM, the chai stall on Platform 7 of New Delhi Railway Station serves exactly two regulars: Zoya, a night-shift radio jockey who talks to a million strangers and nobody in particular, and Arjun, a train driver who has not slept a full night in six years. They have never asked each other's names. They have a rule about that. Then one night, only one of them shows up. An original slow-burn romance about two people who fall in love in the hours the rest of the city forgets.

The sign at the gate of Bhangarh Fort forbids anyone from staying inside after sunset. Three friends with a camera and a sponsorship deal decide the rule is for tourists. By midnight, one of them is missing, the ruined bazaar is lit with lamps that nobody lit, and a woman in a red odhni keeps asking the same question: "Tumhe kisne bulaya?" An original horror story set in Rajasthan — and every path out of the fort is written by readers.

Five thousand years ago, Krishna cursed Ashwatthama to walk the earth until the end of the age, his wound never healing. In 2031, a genomics lab in Navi Mumbai finds a blood sample that should not exist: human, perfectly healthy, and carrying cells that are older than agriculture. Dr. Ira Menon has seventy-two hours to find the donor before the company that funds her does. The problem is that he has been hiding from people like her since the Kurukshetra war. An original mythological sci-fi thriller.