{"product_id":"the-empty-corridor-deep-9798253798515","title":"The Empty Corridor: A Psychological Horror","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe didn't lose her sister. She became her.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaina Sharma's life was precise. A curated apartment. A steady career. Six years with a man who made the silence bearable. Then Arjun leaves, and the architecture of her carefully constructed world collapses overnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeeking escape, Naina takes a teaching position at \u003cb\u003eSt. Agnes Girls' School\u003c\/b\u003e, a colonial-era boarding school perched on a foggy ridge near Mussoorie. For a while, the routine works. The girls are loud. The hills are beautiful. She can almost breathe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThen summer arrives, and the school empties.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaina volunteers to stay behind, alone in a sprawling stone building designed for hundreds. At first, it's only the silence that unsettles her. Doors she locked stand open by morning. Books appear pulled from shelves, messages penciled inside. Footsteps echo above her room at 3 AM.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen she sees the girl at the end of the corridor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA child in a white uniform. Hair tied the way Naina wore it at eleven, \u003cb\u003ethe year her twin sister Kriti fell from a terrace and never got up.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the monsoon rolls in and the mountains vanish behind sheets of rain, the figure grows bolder. She speaks. She remembers. She knows the one thing Naina has spent twenty years burying, what really happened on that terrace, and the terrible half-second that changed everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCut off from the world, trapped in a building that seems to breathe with old grief, Naina must confront a presence that knows her better than anyone alive. \u003cb\u003eBecause it has been with her all along.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA slow-burn literary thriller steeped in the mist-wrapped landscapes of the Indian Himalayas, \u003ci\u003eThe Empty Corridor\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about grief that refuses to stay buried, guilt that rewrites memory, and the terrifying discovery that the thing haunting you has your own face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContent note: This novel explores themes of grief, mental health, and loss.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deep \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798253798515\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d","brand":"Deep","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172392018175,"sku":"9798253798515","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-empty-corridor-deep-9798253798515","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}