Diya Parekh is about to enter her car in Goa, after a tryst with her lover Jagat, when she's grabbed from behind and the muzzle of a gun pressed into her back. Avantika, the step sister Diya does not know she has, also has a similar brush with near death and a narrow escape in Gurgaon a few days later. Diya's cousin Rekha Parekh, who's a budding filmmaker, enters her apartment in Mumbai only to discover that in her absence she has had a mysterious visitor who has gone through her belongings. Diya's father Gautam Parekh and uncle Rakesh narrowly miss an assassin's bullets in Sohna, near Gurgaon. What or who is the mysterious force behind all these attacks on the hotel tycoon and his family members? Why does the attacker always utter the strange words "The time has come"? The search for the answers to these questions, in a race to save the lives of his near and dear ones, takes the hotel tycoon back in time, to a kidnapping, a revenge murder and a passionate love affair gone wrong. Evil intentions behind family conflicts, a business partnership-turned-bitter-rivalry, and competing claimants for thousands of crores of rupees worth of inheritance, all these have a bearing on the terrible mystery of a ruthless and relentless stalker and a dynasty under siege.

About the author

Joygopal Podder is the author of 15 books, 13 of them crime fiction novels, one a romantic comedy and one non-fiction. Several of his books are bestsellers. He has featured for three consecutive years in the Limca Book of Records as India's fastest published crime fiction author. He also has a bio-data on Wikipedia. A gold medalist in Law from Delhi University, Joygopal Podder, who was born in London, works as Director of a leading international NGO based in Delhi and lives in Gurgaon with his wife and two daughters