The Last Lifeline

By Purvaja

Shravya has spent eleven months being fine. Fine on the calls. Fine in the new city she didn't choose. Fine while she quietly manages a distance, a demanding job, and a version of herself curated for everyone but her.
Then the dreams start - a laboratory, a contaminated city, an ocean that pulls her under until her body forces her awake, gasping, with water in her nose that was never really there.
What follows is a reckoning with what fine actually costs, and what it takes to stop performing a life and start living one. Just as Shravya learns to tell the truth to herself, to the people she loves, that same courage is tested by something she never chose: a love story that survived a year of quiet, careful devotion, undone in a single phone call.
The Last Lifeline is a novel about the gap between the version of ourselves we manage for the world and the one we bury, and what it costs to finally close it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9DWVTWP
• ISBN13: 9798187538515
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"