Retired cop John Thomas thought his detective days were over-until a frightened young man knocks on his door with a story no one else will believe. A death in the remote village of Kallukad has been dismissed as a tiger attack. But the evidence doesn't add up, and the deeper John digs, the stranger the case becomes. Silence hangs over the forest and every answer only raises more questions. A son's plea. A detective's hunt. A village of secrets. Project Vrikshara is the explosive beginning of a sci-fi crime thriller series where nothing is as it seems-and some mysteries are too big to stay buried.