SPIRITS OF THE ANCIENT WELL - In the land of Lord Ayyappa, even the silence remembers  (Paperback, Sameer Anzar)

In the rain-soaked hills of Erumeli, where chants to Lord Ayyappa still rise with the mist, the past is never truly buried, only waiting to be remembered. A man returns to his ancestral home after thirty-five years. He comes seeking peace, but the land remembers differently. Beneath the whispering rubber trees and the shadow of Thirumalakunnu Estate, the echoes of one summer in 1980 stir again, when four children climbed a forbidden hill and awoke something ancient, something sacred, something that would not sleep. Memory unravels a story where devotion and dread are twins, born of the same silence, guarded by the same gods. Set against the haunting beauty of Erumeli, Kerala’s pilgrim heartland, this is a tale of inheritance and guilt, of the unseen guardians of the land, and the mysterious bond between faith, family, and the ghosts of memory.