Deep beneath the abandoned shafts of Kolar Gold Fields, something has been waiting for a thousand years. The mine keeps its own records. It collects its own debts.

When heritage surveyor Rahul Kumar descends into the sealed levels of India's most storied gold mine, he carries his father's unfinished maps and a lifetime of unanswered questions. Joining him is Rani Menon, a photojournalist who has been circling this same story since childhood. What they find in the darkness beneath the chainaadu hills is not what anyone expected. And the man who has spent thirty years engineering his way back to this place will not let them bring it to the surface.

Set against the real history of Kolar Gold Fields, once the deepest gold mine in Asia and the birthplace of a community that gave everything to the earth and received dust in return, Cold Mine is a thriller about memory, inheritance, and what we owe the ground beneath our feet. Three timelines. One chamber. A goddess who has not stopped listening.

History that reads like fiction. Fiction built on history.

Suitable for readers 13 and up.

• Paperback: 230 pages
• Publisher: White Falcon Publishing; 1 edition (June 2026)
• Author: Rabi Samuel
• ISBN-13: 9789376310715
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 8 inch

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