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Prologue – “Born Without a Name”

Rain fell like needles that night — a wild monsoon that swallowed the village of Nandipur in its darkness. The storm howled through the bamboo groves, rattling the tin roofs, and washing away the footprints of the living. In that chaos, beneath a half-broken banyan tree beside the river embankment, a cry pierced the night — faint, fragile, human.

It was the cry of a newborn.

No one knew where the woman came from. Some said she was a beggar from the next district, some whispered she was a prostitute who had wandered too far from the highway. Others said nothing — because in a village like Nandipur, silence was safer than curiosity.

When the old sweeper woman, Kaveri, found her the next morning, the woman was dead — her body pale, drenched, and covered in the muddy embrace of the storm. But the baby was alive — barely breathing, wrapped in her torn sari.....

Content:

Prologue – Born Without a Name

Chapter 1 – The Dust of Nandipur

Chapter 2 – A Ray in the Mud

Chapter 3 – Shadows in the Field

Chapter 4 – When Dreams Bleed

Chapter 5 – Fire in the Belly

Chapter 6 – The Return of the Bastard

Chapter 7 – Blood, Betrayal, and the River

Epilogue – The Boy Who Wouldn’t Die

Title: A Bastard

Subtitle: Born without a Name

Genre: Fiction Emotional Drama

Language: English

Format: Mp3

Duration: 45 Min

Audiobook Written, Narrated and Published by: Sweet Audible (2025)