The Lie Between Stations: A Monsoon Mystery at First Light

By Prashant Mishra

Yuvan Bhat, a nineteen-year-old public defender working inside a rain-soaked Bengaluru startup campus, has spent years staying quiet about the night that cost him his closest friend. That silence shatters when he spots a supposedly missing stranger in the background of a live-streamed campus event, pulling him into a cold case tangled with manufactured romance, buried courier parcels, and a sponsor powerful enough to erase careers overnight. As Yuvan digs deeper, every clue he surfaces demands a heavier price, and the secret he must finally expose may be more dangerous than the crime he set out to solve. In a mystery where being believed costs everything, the truth is the most expensive thing anyone can afford.