The Untold Story: A Mythology Retelling

Urmila is the second daughter of Mithila, sister of Sita, and wife of Lakshmana. In the shadow of gods and heroes, she has always been the one who watches, the one who waits. When Rama is exiled and Lakshmana follows him into the forest, Urmila is left behind with only silence, an empty bed, and a grief that threatens to swallow her whole.

Then a dream changes everything.

In a forgotten act of devotion, Urmila makes a bargain that no one else will speak aloud: she will sleep for fourteen years so that her husband can stay awake. But her sleep is not empty. Inside it, she walks the forests, witnesses the war, and carries Lakshmana’s exhaustion as her own. When she finally wakes, she returns to a kingdom that has already begun to erase her sister, Sita, and the truth of what happened.

Now Urmila must decide: remain a silent footnote in someone else’s epic, or pick up the pen and write her own.

The Untold Story: A Mythology Retelling is a lyrical Indian mythology retelling that blends epic fantasy with intimate emotional depth. For readers of mythic fiction, forgotten women’s stories, and Indian mythology retellings, this is the tale of the sleeping queen who woke and refused to be forgotten.