It begins with a whisper from the pages of a locked diary, a farewell song, a leap into the void. The surface of life trembles and the ripples spread outwards, pulling what is hidden into the light.

In Swansong, nothing is what it seems. A birthday marks the beginning of the end, a neighbour hides more than gossip, an ordinary home turns into a stage for a final performance.

By turns poignant, chilling and quietly defiant, these twenty-four stories do not soothe. They disturb, provoke and linger.

??Inside these pages you will find

• Lives on the brink:
Moments when ordinary routines crack open to reveal extraordinary truths.
• Shadows beneath the familiar:
Families, neighbours and homes concealing menace and mystery.
• Defiance and reckoning:
Characters who confront endings not with resignation, but with revelation.

With unflinching honesty and lyrical precision, Vandana Kumari Jena draws you into unexpected depths, where lives fracture, certainties unravel, and revelations arrive in ways both devastating and redemptive.

This is not a book of endings. It is a book of reckonings.