The Cosmos is Black, Only the Stars Shine: Volume 1: Black Steel - Sprcial

By M. Virén

She didn't want to save the world. She just wanted to survive it.

In a fractured nation ruled by silence and shadows,
Mehar Rathi was never supposed to be remembered.
Not after what they did to her family. Not after they erased her from the system.

But she remembers.
And with nothing left to lose, she builds something that can never be silenced:

A machine.
A voice.
Black Steel.

Now, hunted by criminals and secrets too big for her age, Mehar must face the ghosts of her past and the machine of a government that crushes anything that tries to scream.

Alongside her only friend Tara, she won't run anymore.
Not until the system feels everything it tried to forget.

The Cosmos is Black, Only the Stars Shine is a raw, emotionally charged dystopian origin story -
and the second standalone novel in the expanding Jishnu Universe.

For fans of The Hunger Games, Arcane, and deeply human science fiction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FGHCR693
• ISBN13: 9798290430911
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"