When Fire Meets the Heart

The Song Beneath the Sky

The Song Beneath the Sky A Fantasy Novel of Poetic Resonance and Real-World Magic By Eze Joshua --- In a city that pretends to be ordinary, where shadows behave and birds forget how to fly, a girl with a voice like sunlight hidden in a cave begins to hum a song the world has tried to forget. Seventeen-year-old Ariella Dawn has always known she was strange. She was born during a power outage, her first cry a melody so haunting the lights came back on and stayed trembling for hours. She doesn't know why old clocks spin backward when she sings, or why strangers sometimes pause and stare as if remembering something they've never lived. But Ariella has learned to stay silent. Because her voice moves things. And the world does not like to be moved. Her city - Ileno - is full of secrets: a library with no name, birds that coo in harmony at dusk, and a rusted fence by the river where the wind sings lullabies. On a day that begins like any other, Ariella discovers a mirror under the old willow tree. Not cracked. Not dusty. Just standing there, impossibly clean. But the reflection inside it is not her own. It's a boy. Snow-footed. Hollow-eyed. Pale as silence. And when he speaks, it isn't a warning - it's a prophecy. > "You're the last of the Listeners. And the song is dying." Then the mirror shatters - inward - and Ariella's quiet life unravels. --- She is soon drawn into a hidden world beneath her own: a sanctuary called the Guild of the Hollow Note, buried under bridges and candlelight, where people sing in circles to keep reality stitched together. Here, she meets Thorne, a man with amber eyes and inked skin, who tells her she's not just gifted - she's a Resonant: a rare soul who doesn't just hear music... she awakens it. Her voice can call back forgotten things - cities, names, even people. But it also draws them: the Quiet Ones, a secret order that feeds on silence, led by an ancient hunger that once imprisoned the very first voice ever sung - the First Note - in a cage of un-sound. And now that Ariella is singing, they know she exists. --- As she begins to train with the Guild, Ariella learns the power of resonance - of harmony, dissonance, and the fragile balance between what is remembered and what is erased. She unlocks doors sealed by melodies. Awakens echoes buried in stone. And all the while, something ancient stirs deep within her locket - a locket left by her mother, who vanished years ago with a lullaby on her lips. Inside the locket: A song. A key. A secret too dangerous to sing. And chasing her is Calem - a man with eyes like glass and a blade shaped like a broken clef. Once a member of the Guild, now an assassin of silence, Calem was trained using Ariella's mother's stolen voice. But when Ariella sings that forbidden song, something inside him - something long buried - remembers. Her voice cracks the weapon he's become. --- The First Note begins to awaken. Chains of silence tremble as Ariella sings in the chamber beneath the city. Her melody fractures the prison, opens the sky above the Guild, and sends shockwaves through a world already beginning to hum again. But the fight isn't just for sound. It's for memory. For freedom. For the right to speak, to weep, to be heard - in all the ways the Quiet Ones fear. --- The Song Beneath the Sky is a poetic fantasy woven with music, memory, and magic hidden in plain sight. It's about a girl discovering that her greatest danger - her voice - is also her deepest truth. It explores a world much like our own, where the powerful seek to silence what they cannot control, and where one brave heart can rewrite everything with a single note. It's a story of resistance - not through violence, but through sound. A tale of a girl learning not just to sing, but to become the song. --- 🌌 Themes Woven Through the Story: The Power of Music as Memory: Every song in the novel is a thread - binding cities, people, and histories long buried. Silence as Control: The Quiet Ones don't just seek peace - they erase identity. Their silence is domination, not serenity. Legacy and Identity: Ariella's journey is as much about her voice as it is about discovering the truth of who her mother was - and who she must now become. Echo and Refrain: Past and future aren't linear - they reverberate. The book plays with circular time, looping songs, and dreams passed down through melody. --- For fans of: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab Poetic prose and magical realism grounded in emotional truth --- By the novel's end, Ariella does more than awaken a fallen note. She sings the world back to itself. And somewhere beneath the city, in the space where songs go when forgotten, a new melody rises - carrying her name. > Ariella Dawn. The Echo of Light. The girl who sang, and the world that finally listened.

The Phantom Heiress: Rising From The Shadows

Brenna lived with her adoptive parents for twenty years, enduring their exploitation. When their real daughter appeared, they sent Brenna back to her true parents, thinking they were broke. In reality, her birth parents belonged to a top circle that her adoptive family could never reach. Hoping Brenna would fail, they gasped at her status: a global finance expert, a gifted engineer, the fastest racer... Was there any end to the identities she kept hidden? After her fiancé ended their engagement, Brenna met his twin brother. Unexpectedly, her ex-fiancé showed up, confessing his love...

After Divorce: Loved By The Secret Billionaire CEO

After a devastating divorce with the man she had been married to for over three years, Rachel thought her life was over. Her family disowned her, they wanted nothing to do with her anymore and she couldn't blame them. She had just divorced David Hart, one of the top successful bachelors in the country and heir to the Hart industries. But they would never understand that she didn't divorce him, he divorced her after she caught him cheating on her with her god-damned best friend! Rachel was just about to end everything by jumping off a bridge when she was saved by the most unexpected person. The boy she once bullied severally in highschool because he always wore ugly glass and was from a poor background, how come that glass make him so hot now? Why was he helping her get revenge on ex-husband who is trying to make her life even more miserable? And most important how did he get so handsome? What exactly does he want from her? ... No, you must want something, anything. If you can really help me get revenge on David and Lana, I can't just let you do it for free". Ethan went quiet for a while. I held my breath waiting for what his request might be. If it was something money could buy, I'll try my best to get it for him even though I was somehow broke right now. "You're right I do want something". He said after thinking for few minutes "What?" I asked slowly. " Until you get your revenge on David, Lana and every other person you want, you will live here". Live here as in...?  " Wha... What are you saying? ". I stammered hoping he wasn't saying what I thought he was saying. I tried to step back but I missed a step and almost fell on the bed but Ethan caught me holding me in his muscular arms.  Ethan moved his face closer to mine be was so close, our nose almost touched. " I want you to be with me! ".

Bound By Love: Marrying My Disabled Husband

“You need a bride, I need a groom. Why don’t we get married?” Both abandoned at the altar, Elyse decided to tie the knot with the disabled stranger from the venue next door. Pitying his state, she vowed to spoil him once they were married. Little did she know that he was actually a powerful tycoon. Jayden thought Elyse only married him for his money, and planned to divorce her when she was no longer of use to him. But after becoming her husband, he was faced with a new dilemma. “She keeps asking for a divorce, but I don’t want that! What should I do?”

Reclaiming His Ex-wife; At all costs!

Vengeance is hers, not God's. Andrea Campbell's world is shattered when Thane, her ruthless CEO husband, divorces her. Left with nothing, she has no family, no money, no identity. But as fate would have it, she is reunited with her billionaire birth father, Mr. Campbell. Five years later, Andrea returns as a stunning, sassy businesswoman, fueled by a burning desire for revenge. She plans to pull Thane into a high-stakes business collaboration and then destroy him. Thane, consumed by his ex-wife's transformation, will stop at nothing to reclaim her. Unaware of their hidden twin children and Andrea's secret game. He becomes increasingly obsessed. As they dance around their explosive past, Andrea struggles to keep her emotions in check. Thane's determination ignites a risky game of cat and mouse, where old feelings resurface and new flames ignite. Will Thane's all-consuming love be enough to quench Andrea's fury, or will her thirst for revenge destroy them both? Can Andrea resist Thane's relentless chase, or will she succumb to the passion that once bound them?

No Second Chance: Farewell, Mr. Heartbreaker

Katherine spent five years at Vincent's side-model secretary by day, compliant lover by night. When she heard of his arranged marriage, she stifled her pain and planned a quiet exit. That resolve cracked the moment she met his fiancée, daughter of the woman who'd wrecked her own family. Rage replaced obedience; Katherine resolved to claim Vincent. Yet he kept tossing her loyalty tips like she was only a plaything. Heart stung, she walked away with her last scrap of pride. Four years later they crossed paths again, a child gripping her hand. "I don't care who's the father," Vincent pleaded. "Come back, please!"

The Alpha King's Hated Slave

Once upon a time, there were two kingdoms once at peace. The kingdom of Salem and the kingdom of Mombana... Until the day, the king of Mombana passed away and a new monarch took over, Prince Cone. Prince Cone, has always been hungry for more power and more and more. After his coronation, he attacked Salem. The attack was so unexpected, Salem never prepared for it. They were caught off guard. The king and Queen was killed, the prince was taken into slavery. The people of Salem that survived the war was enslaved, their land taken from them. Their women were made sex slaves. They lost everything, including their land. Evil befall the land of Salem in form of Prince Cone, and the prince of Salem in his slavery was filled with so much rage. The prince of Salem, Prince Lucien swore revenge. 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 Ten years later, thirty-years old Lucien and his people raided a coup and escaped slavery. They went into hiding and recuperated. They trained day and night under the leadership of the fearless and cold Lucien who was driven with everything in him to get back their land, and take Mombana land too. It took them five years before they ambushed and attacked Mombana. They killed Prince Cone and reclaimed everything. As they screamed out their victory, Lucien's eyes found and pinned the proud princess of Mombana. Princess Danika. The daughter of Prince Cone. As Lucien stared at her with the coldest eyes anyone can ever possess, he felt victory for the first time. He walked to the princess with the slave collar he'd won for ten years rattling in his hand as he walked. He reached close to her and with a swift movement, he collared her neck. Then, he tilted her chin up, staring into the bluest eyes and the most beautiful face ever created, he gave her a cold smile. "You are my acquisition. My slave. My sex slave. My property. I will pay you in spades, everything you and your father ever did to me and my people." He stated curtly. Pure hatred, coldness and victory was the only emotion on his face. .