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Sands of Promise: Book 1

by Chandra Dhopatkar
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798197106643
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 160
  • Original Price: GBP 18.67
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 223 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Action & Adventure / General

In the deserts of Rajasthan, five teenage girls vanish during a sandstorm.

What they find waiting beyond it should not exist.

After becoming separated from their school group during a cultural immersion trip, Anaya, Maya, Zara, Leela, and Sophie stumble into a hidden encampment deep within the dunes - a place lit by lanterns, ruled by ancient rituals, and inhabited by people who call themselves the Amarai.

The Amarai claim the desert appears only during a celestial event known as sevath: the Returning Sky.

They say the girls cannot leave until the sky releases them.

At first, the camp feels impossibly beautiful - warm fires, haunting music, strange symbols carved into stone, stories older than memory itself. But beneath the beauty lies something deeply unsettling:

The desert does not forget people.

It remembers them in pieces.

As the girls uncover journals left behind by outsiders across generations, they begin to realize the Amarai may not fully understand their own existence - and that the cycle governing the desert may be breaking apart.

When memories begin slipping away, time starts behaving strangely, and impossible stars appear in the eastern sky years too early, the girls must decide whether the desert is a prison... or a doorway.

Atmospheric, haunting, and emotionally immersive, Sands of Promise - Book 1 blends mystical fantasy, psychological mystery, and literary suspense into an unforgettable journey through memory, longing, and the terrifying beauty of being changed forever.

Perfect for readers who enjoy:

  • atmospheric fantasy
  • mysterious hidden worlds
  • desert mythology
  • slow-burn psychological suspense
  • emotionally rich speculative fiction
  • mystical coming-of-age stories

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