RAVI: The Box That Kept Breathing (Ravi: Cold Chain)

By Poppy Drakaina

Ravi has spent a year trying to be someone his daughters can trust: a legitimate night medical courier, clean van, clean paperwork, clean conscience. Then a sealed cold-chain case comes through his route reading colder than the air around it - and warming from the inside.

It breathes. It knocks in time with a pulse. And the closer it gets to a damaged heart, the harder it tries to arrive.

What starts as a wrong-temperature pickup becomes a chase through private blood clinics, a dying woman prepared for illegal transplant, and a network that has already used other bodies to move this cargo before Ravi ever touched it. Every choice costs someone: his partner's hand, a stranger's life, his daughter's trust. Every mile pulls him back toward the six years of dirty work he thought he'd escaped.

Ravi knows cold chains, chain of custody, and how to keep dangerous things moving quietly. None of it makes him safe. It just makes him useful - to the thing in the box, and to the people who want it delivered.

The Box That Kept Breathing is a brutal adult dark-fantasy body-horror novel about survival instinct, bad bargains, and what a father will carry to protect what's left of his family.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDMKQF4J
• ISBN13: 9798191809052
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 409 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"