Twelve-year-old Mihryar is told he is small, slow, invisible — until a mystical guardian rises from the patterns of his family’s carpet and reveals he has been chosen to protect the Hidden Sun, a transcendent force capable of healing a broken world. From Jupiter’s moon Europa to Mercury, through cosmic winds and conversations with the Moon, he learns that the most dangerous prison is the one we build inside our own minds.

Hidden Sun and the Alchemy of Light is a debut contemporary fantasy — a luminous tale of identity, transformation, and the courage to trust the blazing light within. For readers drawn to philosophical journeys and magical realism steeped in cultural richness, this is a story that reads like a map disguised as a novel.