This book began with a nightmare.

After researching abandoned and allegedly haunted locations across India, Muskan Khanna began waking at 3 a.m., night after night, with visions that followed the same pattern: places governed by rules. Rules that were never meant to be broken. And when they were, something answered.
What emerged from those nights was not imagination, but recurring nightmares, each built around a fragile order.
In one, a girl grows up inside a forest house defined by strict commandments: never go upstairs, never leave after dark, never question your father. When she begins to see a silent presence watching her from the shadows, she believes she has uncovered the truth. But in a world built on rules, breaking one does not reveal freedom. It reveals consequences.
In another, an isolated village survives under a single rule: its population must remain exactly 212. If a child is conceived, someone must die. For generations, no one questions it. Until the balance falters, and the cost of disobedience begins to surface.
Both nightmares are bound by the same terrifying principle: the paranormal does not arrive without origin. Every haunting has a beginning. Every curse has a reason. But people rarely ask how it started. They only obey what it has become. The Rules of the Cursed explores fear, belief, and the paranormal.
Because some nightmares do not end when you wake.