The Stillness Within: A Novel

<p><b><i>&ldquo;Ever since I left I never thought I&rsquo;d come back. But life has a way of pulling you back to the very place you ran from.&rdquo;</i></b></p><p><i>Hi I&rsquo;m Abhinav Narula.</i></p><p>Data analyst in New York. Emotionally avoidant. Expert at pretending everything&rsquo;s fine.</p><p>I left India four years ago &mdash; not just to chase ambition but to outrun memories that hurt too much to carry.</p><p>Now I&rsquo;m back. In a house I never called home. I find myself stuck under one roof with the family I&rsquo;ve avoided a father who still thinks emotional manipulation is a love language and a mother whose silence says more than her words ever could.</p><p>My sister Vidya? Still the same firecracker &mdash; loud hilarious and always ready with a punchline when things get too real.</p><p>I thought this visit would be quick. Polite. Forgettable.</p><p>But then I met Jiya &mdash; a street-food-obsessed camera-wielding stranger who walks into my story like she owns the chapter. And suddenly everything I kept buried begins to surface again.</p><p><b><i>The past isn&rsquo;t done with me yet. And the world around us?</i></b></p><p><b><i>It&rsquo;s changing faster than I can run.</i></b></p>