The First Meeting and a Glimpse of the Past

The quiet, serene beauty of the mountain town was a world away from the cold, clinical precision of their home. Anika and Vikram, a united front against a world of deceit and betrayal, stood in the heart of the town, their hearts a frantic drumbeat of a new, terrifying reality. The quest was over. They had found her. The ghost of a past that was a silent, heartbreaking memory, a ghost of a child who had been a silent, painful truth, was a woman. A woman who was a silent, beautiful, terrifying force of a new, beautiful, terrifying reality. But finding her was only the beginning. The new challenge was not to find her, but to tell her the truth. And the truth, a brutal, terrifying thing, was a secret that could shatter a life.