One Destroyer's Dharma

Complete at 99,000 words, ONE DESTROYER’S DHARMA remixes the gods and unbearable choices of the Mahabharata into propulsive, character-led science fiction. It stands alone with series potential.

Ishara stares in shock at the six-armed, cybernetic Asura (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 even after he vanished into the void. Until the demon attacked—so much for the great man's protection.

With her lifelong friend Adebayo—who's desperate to escape their valley's poverty—Ishara hunts her oligarch father's trail across the solar system. When another Asura 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. She'll 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 that's been there all along, something ancient with a thousand eyes.