Novoneel Chakraborty’s thriller: A girl looks for her sister who went missing from an elite school

Fairmont High International, Noida

Never in her wildest dreams had Kisha thought she would be 40,000 feet above the ground on her seventeenth birthday. That too all by herself. Sure, she had four other students of Fairmont High International, London, on the same flight to New Delhi, but they weren’t from her section. As part of an annual exchange programme, five students, with overall ace results and in their penultimate year of passing school, were shuffled between the different branches of Fairmont High, world over. Five students from their California branch went to their Sydney branch and, in exchange, five students from their Sydney branch arrived at the California branch. Similarly, five from the London branch went to New Delhi (NCR) and vice versa.

Kisha was one of the five who was selected for the London-New Delhi (NCR) exchange. And it wasn’t a random decision or any thrill of coming back to roots that had led her to apply for the exchange programme. The reason was rather simple: she wanted to know what had happened to her elder sister, Anara Sen. And what the hell was the Heartbreak Club, as mentioned in the anonymous Twitter message. Sitting by the window seat of the aircraft,...

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