We Were Never There: A Family Reckoning Before Dawn

By Prashant Mishra

When twenty-one-year-old cybersecurity analyst Samar Joshi is named beneficiary in the will of a stranger he has never met, the winding alleys of old Lucknow pull him into a spiral of buried family secrets and viral deception. An ex-best friend arrives with answers that cost more than silence, while an anonymous social media account begins predicting every clue Samar uncovers before he can act on it. Racing against a public narrative that reshapes itself faster than the truth, Samar must decide whether protecting the person he loves most is worth becoming the villain the internet has already decided he is.