My 12th book, SACRIFICE, was born from a story I first wrote over a decade ago—a modern fantasy retelling of the Isaac narrative, shaped by three intertwined lives. Back then, I was searching for a way to speak about the weight of relationships that demand everything and give nothing in return. The characters of Yajna and Jasmine had to change as I did, evolving with my own understanding of love, loss, and selfhood. But Isaac’s journey remained constant, rooted in the same inner conflict that first drew me to his story.
Over the years, I’ve come to see how some relationships, no matter how deeply we invest in them, can become prisons. They ask for sacrifice and submission, but rarely offer reciprocity. They chip away at who we are, pressing us into shadowed places where our true selves struggle to breathe. Sacrifice is about the slow, painful realisation that not all bonds sustain us—some only serve to constrict.
This story is not a neat journey of empowerment or escape, but a meditation on how sacrifice is woven into the fabric of civilisation, morality, and spirituality. It probes the shadowed spaces where trauma accumulates silently, where the weight of obligation and ancient rites press down with devastating force, and where resilience arises quietly within a sacred and brutal silence.
SACRIFICE asks readers to face how this pattern of offering the innocent continues today, masked in ideology or faith, and how it fractures what it claims to protect. If you’ve ever felt the weight of a relationship that asked too much, or if you’ve ever wondered what it means to truly be free, this story is for you.
Sacrifice is a testament to the maturity that comes from grappling with the ties that bind us and the inner resolve it takes to finally transcend them.
Om Namah Shivaya.
Twinn Swan 
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