The Last Breath of Light

About The Book 

The Last Breath of the Light is a heartbreaking journey into the mind of a man who falls before the world does — and rises only when his own heart chooses life again.
Rishabh, a quiet dreamer shaped by love, guilt, and expectations, finds his world collapsing the day he learns that the person he trusted most may no longer be his. Desperate for answers, he drives into the night… and wakes up nowhere.
Trapped in a coma, suspended between breath and oblivion, he enters the White Room — a strange, shifting world built from memory, pain, and the truths he never dared to face. There, he confronts flickering shards of the past, the shadows of abandonment, the rage he buried, and the tender parts of himself he long ago forgot how to love.
But it is the appearance of his younger self — innocent, hopeful, unbroken — that forces him to confront the one question he has avoided all his life:
If everyone he loved could leave… why should he stay?
As his family waits beside a silent hospital bed and reality pulls further away, Rishabh must choose: surrender to the darkness that feels easier, or rise for the boy inside him who still believes he is worth saving.
Heartbreaking, immersive, and deeply human, The Last Breath of the Light is a story of survival after emotional ruin, the weight of promises, and the quiet, brutal courage it takes to choose yourself when the world doesn’t.

About The Author 

Rishabh Katiyar, an alumnus of Chandigarh University, is a financial planner from Chandigarh who balances logic in his profession with emotion in his writing. Driven by passions for music, cricket, and storytelling, he writes honest, relatable fiction inspired by real human struggles.
With The Last Breath of the Light, his debut novella, Rishabh hopes to reach readers who feel lost or overwhelmed and show them that resilience often begins with a single spark of hope. He believes stories can heal—and he writes from the heart, always.