The Opium Clerk - Release Date January, 2026

Hiran, born in 1857—the year of the great Mutiny and his father’s death—is brought to Calcutta by his widowed mother, where he discovers his only remarkable talent: an uncanny ability to read a man’s fate from his palm. Fortune leads him to a job at an auction house, drawing him into a shadowy trade and the sinister orbit of his superior, the infamous Mr. Jonathan Crabbe. Tasked with procuring a child for Crabbe’s opium-addicted wife, Hiran unwittingly steps into a future fraught with peril. From rebellion and war to storms at sea, love, intrigue, fraud, and dark dealings, this unlikely hero—the opium clerk—finds himself swept into a world of danger and destiny.