One Destroyer's Dharma

Complete at 99,000 words, ONE DESTROYER’S DHARMA remixes the god-like puppeteers and unbearable choices of the Mahabharata into propulsive, character-led science fiction. It blends the furious voice and found-family of Some Desperate Glory and the gritty void and angry dispossessed in The Expanse.

Ishara stares in shock at the six-armed, cybernetic demon twitching on her bedroom floor, whose neural pathways she just tore apart with a desperate thought.

For twenty years, she shoveled manure on a backwater Earth ranch, honoring her illustrious father’s final command: Hide your power. She played the nobody, while he left, vanishing in the void. Then the demon invaded—so much for the great man's protection. She leaves Earth to hunt his trail across the solar system, steadied only by her childhood companion, Adebayo. When another cyborg demon corners them, she discovers she can rip the truth straight from its mind.

Her father lied. Yes, he was a ruling elder; but he was also the regime's foremost weaponeer. And his masterpiece? Her. Engineered to invade the neural implant in every brain. He didn’t conceal her, he contained her. Now his rivals are closing in, desperate to collar her.

He wanted a weapon? Fine. Ishara will turn herself on all his kind. But every mind she destroys haunts her own, and Adebayo—the only one keeping her human—may not survive the weapon she becomes. The weapon needed by something familiar, something ancient with a thousand eyes.

ONE DESTROYER’S DHARMA stands alone with trilogy potential.