Book Synopsis – The Week That Vanished
In the coastal city of Visakhapatnam, Nikhil Rover lives an ordinary life; a steady job at a local bank, a loving wife Monisha, and a daughter who adores him. But everything changes when a strange letter appears on his doorstep, signed by himself.
What begins as mild confusion soon spirals into unease as Nikhil uncovers fragments of a missing week; seven days completely erased from his memory. His search for answers leads him into a hidden layer of the bank’s operations: a confidential project called V-Vault, headed by the charismatic but secretive executive, Raghavan.
Alongside his colleague Arun and the missing employee Anandan, Nikhil had once helped develop a compound that could suppress selective memory; an experiment in controlling truth itself. When he realizes he had willingly undergone the procedure to protect the evidence, the question shifts from what happened to why he agreed to forget.
Through cryptic videos, duplicated pendrives, and his own recorded messages, Nikhil begins to rediscover his erased self; a man who had buried the truth deep inside his own mind to keep it alive. But the deeper he goes, the more he learns that memory is not just a record; it’s a weapon. As the system closes in and his two identities begin to overlap, Nikhil must choose which version of himself to trust: the man who remembered everything or the man who chose to forget.
The Week That Vanished is a slow-burning psychological mystery that explores memory, morality, and the dangerous space between truth and self-deception — a story where forgetting becomes the only way to survive.