Empty Altars
When the last prayer ends, a god falls with all its accumulated weight.
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Anjali Thapa left her family’s faith for mathematics. Then she discovers Kathmandu’s impact sites are not meteorites, but gods turned to stone when their final worshiper dies.
Belief has mass. Prayer creates a measurable field. With an aging monk who has buried twenty-three fallen deities, Anjali learns to calculate where each abandoned god will land.
Her newest equation predicts several tons of stone striking Asan Tole during the festival crush. The last believer will not leave, and Anjali’s brother stands in the market below. Numbers can map the fall; they cannot make anyone trust the woman who stopped believing.
The equation is certain; everything worth saving lies beneath it.
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- Series
- The Otherwise Novels
- Availability
- In development
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- LPH98.lifestyle
- Author
- L.P.H. Nordhaven
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