The Keeper of Names

Historian Anjali Ramasamy returns to her childhood home of Mauritius after her brother vanishes, clutching only his journal and a warning written in blood: The cane is whispering. She discovers an island where beauty is a mask for a festering wound, a place haunted by a colonial pact of unspeakable horror that binds the powerful elite to a hungry, ancient entity. To find her brother, Anjali must unravel a conspiracy centuries old, armed only with a list of forgotten names and a willingness to sacrifice her most precious memories. But the land itself is watching, and the price of truth may be her very soul, as she learns that some legacies are written not in history books, but in blood and soil, and the only way to break a curse is to remember it.