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The Uninvited Guest List

The Uninvited Guest List

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798193818229
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 20 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some tables remember what history refuses to.

Step inside Bakhtawar Haveli, a historic estate painstakingly restored into a high-end luxury hotel. To celebrate the grand reopening, an elite circle of guests gathers for a lavish, candlelit dinner experience recreated from the household's 1897 archive. But when the power abruptly cuts out, the night transforms into a chilling psychological trap.

An antique gramophone activates on its own, locking the doors and trapping the guests inside until dawn. They soon discover a brass plate bolted to the head of the table bearing a cryptic inscription. Terrified and cut off from the outside world, the guests are forced into an unraveling game of survival and ancestral reckoning.

At the center of the storm is Zara Qureshi, the quietly formidable caterer whose family worked the mansion's hidden service corridors for generations. She knows the house's darkest secrets-including the tragic fate of eleven kitchen staff members who were unjustly hanged in 1897 for a crime they didn't commit, their names erased from history and replaced by a careless clerk's ditto.

As a prominent historian misinterprets the inscription as a demand for a curse's blood sacrifice, the modern elite begin turning on one another to protect their own skin. The true message of the house was never a call for blood, but a plea for recognition: Those who were not counted let their names be spoken at this table.

In a house built on forgetting, who gets to be remembered? The Uninvited Guest List is a masterfully tense, post-colonial gothic thriller about class, erasure, and the devastating weight of historical amnesia.

The above eleven struck off 6th April. Do not carry forward. Carry us forward.

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