Paras was the king's shadow. The man who stood closest to the King and would have taken a bullet for the crown without hesitation. Jayanth was the king's secretary,deeply skeptical of the young commoner who had inherited the throne. But when an assassin's bullet tore through the palace, everything changed. Paras, the most trusted man in the kingdom, was exposed as the traitor. Jayanth, who had never quite liked to the new king, became his fiercest protector. This is the story of two men bound by duty, torn apart by betrayal, and slowly, painfully, finding their way back to each other. Through twenty-two years of friendship, a single moment of weakness and years of prison visits.