Angol
A goddess who can unmake matter, atom by atom. A son who still doesn't know she's his mother. And a cult that has found the only way to bring a god to her knees: take her child.
Kanishka gave up her divinity for the smallest possible life - a borrowed name, a desk job, a chance to live near the boy she was never allowed to claim. The Religion of Flames does not care what she sacrificed. Its immortal prophet, Pranaya, has decided the universe must be broken before it can be healed, and behind his sermons and his missiles and a faith that answers prayer with fire, he is building something only a goddess can stop - and only a mother would be reckless enough to walk into.
To get her son back, Agni will have to do the one thing she swore she never would again: choose a side, and burn.
Seven thousand years earlier, an exiled archer forbidden to lift a bow is learning exactly what his refusal will cost. Two ages. One wound. In both, the price of dharma is coming due.
New to the saga? You won't be lost - built-in recaps catch up new and returning readers, no homework required.
Sacrilege is Book Two of Agni: The Cult Wars - the saga that opened with Heresy - and it tightens every screw the story has been turning since the rise of Agni: what does a goddess owe the galaxy that forged her into a weapon, and what will a mother spend to buy back one ordinary life?
Indian-mythology space opera with the soul of a tragedy: warring empires of Sura and Asura, false gods, and the terrible arithmetic of mercy. A science-fantasy epic for readers of Amish Tripathi and Anand Neelakantan who crave the cosmic scale of Dune and the moral devastation of The Poppy War.
Faith is a fire. Love is the fuse. And every flame, sooner or later, is asked what it was lit to destroy.
