About the book

A good family. A best friend. And a villain hiding somewhere between them.

Set in an ordinary Pakistani home across twenty years, VILLAIN follows Hamza from a warm childhood into a life he believes is slowly being taken from him. By whom, and why, is the question every chapter asks.

The series

One life, told in four books

Book One

The Warmth

Childhood to twenty. A warm home, a best friend, and the first thing that goes wrong.

Publishing now

Book Two

Title to be revealed

Revealed at the end of Book One.

Coming

Book Three

Title to be revealed

Revealed at the end of Book Two.

Coming

Book Four

Title to be revealed

The end of the story.

Coming

MA3the author

The author

Written by MA3

MA3 is a writer and designer. VILLAIN is his first novel.

He wrote it because of something he kept noticing. When people tell the story of their own lives, there is almost always a villain in it. A relative who compared. A friend who drifted. A family that stopped calling. VILLAIN is about how certain we are of who that villain is.

Each chapter comes with its own black-and-white illustration, made for the book.

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Why a serial

Read it the way it was written

One chapter every Friday at 9 PM. Time to think, talk about it, and wonder who the villain really is.

Fair price

4 chapters free, then 100 PKR

Or pay nothing: share the book and earn tokens from every new reader you bring.

Two editions

English now, Urdu later

The English edition comes first. A full Urdu edition follows as its own book.

“Love learns to stop announcing itself.”

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