A Cold Hold

Sanjana Kanamarlapudi was born in Kuala Lumpur and raised in Singapore, surrounded by books from her earliest years.

She published her first book at age eight and has continued writing across genres ever since.

A Cold Hold combines her fascination with psychology, mystery, and the resilience of the human spirit.

There are ghosts we carry long before we ever see them living in shadows of memory, in wounds no one notices, in the quiet hours when the world grows still.

At Gwen Griswold’s boarding school, silence never stays empty for long: voices whisper, footsteps echo, and the past refuses to let go.

This is not a story about hauntings it is a story about what it costs to carry your ghosts, and what it means to finally set them down. Deeply psychological, beautifully atmospheric, and quietly devastating.