One Destroyer's Dharma
Complete at 99,000 words, ONE DESTROYER’S DHARMA remixes the gods and dynasties of the Mahabharata (ancient India’s Iliad) into propulsive science fiction. It blends the furious voice of Some Desperate Glory and the unforgiving, lived-in void of The Expanse.
Ishara is just as shocked as the six-armed, cybernetic demon on her bedroom floor—whose neural pathways she just fried with a desperate thought.
For twenty years, she shoveled manure on a backwater Earth ranch, honoring her father’s final command: Hide. She played the nobody, while the “Great Man” got himself killed in some distant oligarchs’ feud.
So much for that plan.
Cover blown, she ditches Earth to hunt his secrets across the solar system. But when the demons corner her again, she rips the truth from one of their dying minds.
Of course her father wasn’t just any oligarch; he was Sol’s foremost weaponeer. And his masterpiece? Her. A living weapon engineered to hijack the neural implant in every brain. Now his rival dynasties are closing in, desperate to collar her or vaporize her into the void.
Bad move. Ishara’s done hiding. He wanted a weapon? She’ll show the oligarchs a real war, even if it costs her her humanity.
ONE DESTROYER’S DHARMA stands alone with trilogy potential. A sharp-tongued warrior defies duty, and a thousand-eyed god weaponizes human guilt.


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