Behind the Second Timeline

By Adeeba Rashid

In a railway colony on the edges of Bhopal, everyone knows the story of what happened eight years ago, until cricket analyst Siya Fernandes is mistaken for a witness who was never supposed to come back. Forced into an uneasy alliance with a brooding musician searching for his missing parent, Siya unravels a conspiracy that has erased an entire settlement from every official map. But the closer they get to the truth, the more dangerous their fragile trust becomes, and Siya is hiding a connection to the case that could destroy everything. When handwritten edits inside sealed court transcripts reveal that two families have each been guarding half of a buried secret, Siya must decide whether exposing the truth is worth losing the one person who finally sees them clearly.