THE ROAD NOBODY LOOKS AT The Marripalem Chronicles — Book One

In the quiet village of Marripalem, there is a road nobody takes after sunset.
At the edge of that road stands an abandoned hut, swallowed by trees and silence. Beside it is an ancient well that no one remembers digging. Every night, an oil lamp burns inside the hut—though no one ever goes there to light it.
Twelve-year-old Anvi has always wondered why.
When she finally asks her grandmother about the hut, she discovers that the village has been hiding a story for generations: a vanished kingdom, a beautiful princess who was never what she seemed, a prince who returned from the forest changed, and villagers who disappeared without leaving a trace.
But the truth buried beneath Marripalem is far older.
Gold lies beneath the earth. The dead are still waiting. And something that can wear the voices of the people you love has begun to wake.
As Anvi follows the clues left behind by an old woman named Mallamma, she discovers that the road, the well, the lamp, and the buried dead are all part of the same ancient secret.
And the villagers have always known one rule:
Never look toward the hut.
Because some things notice when you remember them.
And once they know you remember...
they can find you.