Contemporary fantasy rooted in ancient Indian cosmology.

Niru's grandmother is an immortal goddess. Niru has known it since she was a child, the way you know a house you grew up in: completely, and without ever examining it.

Alongside that knowing, she has built a life small enough to keep. Work, fight training, and a foster sister who tells her she disappears into both and forgets people exist.

Then Niru's own power wakes, and the thing she never looked at directly begins to look back.

Her grandmother is summoned away before she can teach Niru how to hold it, leaving her newly visible to gods, demons, and every immortal thing that has learned to watch.

Aedan, a Guardian, agrees to teach her, but makes the limits of that agreement clear. He will not replace her grandmother. What he offers is narrower and more urgent: how to see what magic hides in plain sight, how to control what she is broadcasting, and how to survive being noticed. He is precise about the work and careful with everything he does not say.

Because creatures are already emerging from a prison realm that has held for centuries. Niru is told they escaped.

She suspects someone let them out.

And as they begin moving toward her, what she carries matters less than what she decides: who her power serves, what it will cost her, and how much of herself she is willing to surrender to use it.

She will not be claimed by the gods.
She will not become a weapon because one is needed.
And she will not let anyone else decide what she is becoming.

Divine Lies: The Unwilling Immortal is contemporary fantasy rooted in ancient Indian cosmology, where mythology lives inside the ordinary, power comes with terms, and becoming more does not require disappearing.

For readers who want a story that stays close to one woman's mind, mythology that feels lived in, and the slow tension between two people who understand each other best in motion.