Open the book. Turn to page twenty-seven. And try not to believe a word it says.

Risha Sharma is sixteen, top of her class, and happiest in the quiet of her school library. So when she pulls a dusty blue book from the last shelf - no title, no author - she takes it home out of curiosity, nothing more.

Inside, in careful pencil, someone has written a warning about her afternoon. An hour later, it comes true.

The next warning saves a boy's life. The one after that mentions Aarohi Kapoor, a student who disappeared from this school years ago and was never found.

Risha and her three closest friends start pulling at the thread - a fire nobody talks about, a locked storage room, teachers who go pale at a name. The messages keep surfacing while they watch. Fresh pencil on old paper. Always one step ahead.

Because the book isn't predicting anything.

Somebody is writing it. And they know exactly which page Risha is on.

Margins of Tomorrow is a fast, one-sitting novella - the first book in The Margins, a young-adult mystery series set in an Indian school. For readers of One of Us Is Lying and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.

Book Two, Margins of the Forgotten, is coming soon.