Chapter 1: A House That Remembers

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:51:17 +0000

The marigold garlands had already begun to wilt by the time Riya Sehgal — now Riya Malhotra — stepped across the threshold of her new home. It was a Thursday evening in October, the kind that smelled of wood smoke and coming winter, and the haveli in Chandigarh stood large and unfamiliar before her like a sentence she hadn't finished reading yet.