The Borrowed Roads
A perfectly ordinary street appears where a building once stood, and for quick-witted courier Tara, it's a shortcut to an impossible delivery. But this isn't just any street; it's a....
A perfectly ordinary street appears where a building once stood, and for quick-witted courier Tara, it's a shortcut to an impossible delivery. But this isn't just any street; it's a passage that demands payment in borrowed distance, a debt Tara unknowingly incurs. When her refusal to accept responsibility is ignored, she finds herself entangled with a secret society of mapmakers and auditors who guard the city's hidden routes. Now, with her younger brother missing and a mysterious receipt linking him to the very passage she used, Tara must navigate a Mumbai where reality bends and every shortcut comes with a terrifying cost. Can she find her brother before he's lost to the city's shifting pathways forever?