Jwala Kamini

The Flame of the Sixty-Four

von Shivam Thakur

264 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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JWALA KAMINI: The Flame of the Sixty-FourA Novel by SHIVAM THAKUR

Some flames flicker. The one on your shelf is listening.>Investigative journalist Ishan Mehra has built his career debunking the supernatural. Every haunted well, every weeping idol - he has always found the crime underneath the miracle. But this case is different. The dead all knew each other. They all guarded small brass lamps whose flames never moved. And a message written in ash on a wall names one more person.

Him.

The trail leads from Delhi's midnight archives to the burning ghats of Varanasi, from the fire that rises wickless out of the rock at Jwalamukhi to a roofless circle of sixty-four stone goddesses standing alone in the paddy fields of Odisha - where, in 1984, a brilliant scholar performed half of a forbidden rite and left behind only his shadow, burned into the temple wall.

Now the thing that walked away from that night is hunting the last of the sacred flames. It wears a fine grey coat. It speaks in a cultured, doubled voice. And it has been waiting twenty-seven years for Ishan - because his mother kept a lamp on her kitchen shelf, and the fire that failed to save her has never stopped keeping her son.

To survive, Ishan must surrender everything he believes - to a mysterious ascetic on a Himalayan ridge, to a secret circle of yogini keepers, and to Jwala Kamini herself: the thirty-first of the Sixty-Four, the fire that burns away everything false so that what is true may finally be seen.

"She is not wrath. Wrath tires. She is love with the mercy burned off - and she keeps her accounts."

A bone-chilling occult thriller steeped in India's living temples, forbidden tantra, and the terrifying grace of the divine feminine - Jwala Kamini will leave you checking every flame in your house... and wondering why it just went still.

• ISBN: 9798193003090
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp