This month\, we'll discuss The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan.
\nAkbar Manzil was once a grand es tate off the coast of South Africa. Now\, nearly a century since it was bu ilt\, it stands in ruins: an isolated boardinghouse for misfits\, seeking to forget their pasts and disappear into the mansions dark corridors.
\ nUntil Sana. She and her father are the latest of Akbar Manzil&rsquo\;s long list of tenants\, seeking a new home after suffering painful loss. U nlike the others\, who choose not to look too closely at the mansion&rsquo \;s unsettling qualities&mdash\;the strange assortment of bones in the ove rgrown garden\, the mysterious figure seen to move sometimes at night&mdas h\;she is curious and questioning and finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion. To the eerie and forgotten East Wing\, home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objects&mdash\;and to the locked door a t its end\, unopened for decades.
\nBehind the door is a bedroom fro zen in time\, with faded photographs of a couple in love and a worn diary that whispers of a dark past: the long-forgotten story of a young woman na med Meena\, the original owner&rsquo\;s second wife\, who died there tragi cally a hundred years ago. Watching Sana from the room&rsquo\;s shadows is a grieving djinn\, an invisible spirit who once loved Meena and has haunt ed the mansion since her mysterious death. Obsessed with Meena&rsquo\;s st ory\, and unaware of the creature that follows her\, Sana digs into the pa st like fingers into a wound\, awakening the memories of the house itself& mdash\;and dredging up old and terrible secrets that will change the lives of everyone living and dead at Akbar Manzil.
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