The Shimla Deception

About the book

On a rain-swept night in Shimla, Neha Thakur disappears. By dawn, yellow tape flutters near Yes Bank and the past comes roaring back for Prashant Dhiman, the man who once loved her and never stopped. Their story began a decade earlier with a mistaken Facebook message "Wrong Neha" and grew into stolen coffees on Mall Road, first snow at Jakhoo, and dreams big enough to bend fate. Now, as suspicion circles him, Prashant is pulled into an unofficial hunt through misty lanes and buried ledgers, where a servant knows too much, money moves too cleanly, and respectable doors open a shade too easily. With an unyielding inspector and a forensic mind who refuses to be intimidated, he follows Neha's fragments toward a truth the city keeps like resin-layered, slow, under pressure. Part love story, part rain-drenched mystery, The Shimla Deception is haunting reckoning with courage, complicity, and the choices that refuse to stay buried.