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The Asura Within: When the gods choose you, it is not always a blessing
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the gods choose you, it is not always a blessing.
Kaveri was born in a border village that existed in the shadow of war. Marked at birth with an indigo seal no one could explain, she grew up feared, tolerated, and quietly resilient. She learned early that survival required silence. But silence does not last forever.
When her village burns and the mark awakens, Kaveri discovers that the power inside her is older than the gods themselves. What flares through her hands in a moment of desperation is not a weapon - it is a key.
Rescued by Sarayu, an ancient Yakshi who walks the spaces between worlds, Kaveri is drawn beyond the mortal realm into a hidden city and then into the depths of Patala - the underworld long named enemy in celestial history. There she meets Vritra, the so-called demon of legend.
He does not look like a monster.
In halls of black stone and deep water, Kaveri learns that the cosmic order governing Swargaloka, Mrityuloka, and Patala was built on a treaty never freely agreed to. The First Compact - sealed under coercion centuries ago - still binds all three realms.
Her mother knew.
The seal placed on Kaveri at birth was not a claim by the gods. It was protection. Preparation. An inheritance of Anavrita power - the ability not to destroy the world, but to unbind it.
Now the Devas want her.
Some seek to protect her. Others seek to contain her. All understand the danger she represents: a question asked at the center of heaven itself.
As war spreads across the mortal world and factions harden in the celestial realm, Kaveri must decide what dharma truly means. Is it obedience to inherited order? Or the courage to examine it?
To challenge the gods is to risk annihilation.
To remain silent is to preserve injustice.
Kaveri chooses to ascend.
And in doing so, she carries a question into heaven that cannot be unheard.
The Asura Within is the first book in the Triloka Saga - a sweeping mythic fantasy of power, philosophy, rebellion, and the cost of asking whether the world was ever built fairly.
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