God Owes Me a Favor

By Rupen O Adhikari

God Owes Me a Favor is a literary speculative novel about desire, mercy, memory, death, and the courage to ask for what one truly wants.

The story begins with Elias Rowan, a man who interrupts Death on a collapsing bridge and saves a child from an ending that was already written. Because of that act, Death owes him one favor. But the favor is not simple. It becomes a trap shaped by old laws, hidden debts, and a balance that may never have been fair.

Blending myth, emotional reflection, and lyrical storytelling, the novel follows Elias, Lyra, Death, and a narrator who keeps returning to one powerful question: What do you want? Through themes of ancestral memory, love, grief, mercy, and the ordinary beauty of living, the book explores what it means to refuse easy miracles and choose something more human.

This is a thoughtful, poetic, and deeply emotional novel for readers who enjoy stories where myth meets ordinary life, where endings become teachers, and where the smallest acts of kindness can change the terms of a debt.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HNMCLTD9
• ISBN13: 9798182902915
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Quill to Kindle
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"