Trapped Until Monday: Sometimes getting stuck is the beginning of finding yourself.

By KIRUTHICK RAJ B J

What if the thing you're running from is not the place you're leaving?

Kiruthick is an investment analyst who has spent three years turning other people's fear into numbers. One Wednesday evening, in the middle of an argument over a rounding error, he closes his laptop, walks out, and buys a bus ticket to the hills without looking at the destination.

Nila is a village girl who has loved her home all her life and still cannot breathe in it. After being blocked by a boy she trusted, she packs a blue bag and boards a bus toward the city, sure that happiness is somewhere else.

Then the mountain road disappears.

A landslide strands them in a small wooden camp with a cracked window, terrible tea, no signal, and a handful of fellow travellers. With nowhere to go and nothing to perform, two strangers begin to ask each other the questions they have been avoiding for years:

How much money is enough?
What does freedom actually mean?
Are you running toward something, or only away?
Can a failed relationship still have been worth it?

Trapped Until Monday is a warm, thoughtful, quietly funny novel about escape versus change, ambition and exhaustion, money and meaning, and the friendships that find us when we finally stop moving. It is not a conventional romance. It is a story about being truly listened to, and what a person can become afterwards.

Perfect for readers who love:
Character-driven, reflective fiction
Stranded-together stories with heart and humour
Stories about burnout, quitting, and starting over
Gentle philosophy without lectures
Friendship stories that stay with you after the last page

Sometimes getting stuck is the beginning of finding yourself.

Pour a cup of tea. Monday can wait.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMWTR14B
• ISBN13: 9798161959992
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"