The Drowned Voice

She gave up her voice to walk in his world. But some songs were never meant to be silenced.

When folklorist Alistair Finch discovers a salt-crusted journal buried beneath the ruins of a drowned village, he unearths a story lost to the sea-one of obsession, metamorphosis, and mythic horror.

Beneath the waves, Lira was once a celebrated Soloist of the Crest, her voice a silver thread in the Chorus of her deep-ocean kin. But when she hears the laugh of a human boy above the surface, her soul fractures. Abandoning the harmony of her people, she descends into the abyss to make a forbidden pact with an ancient, hunger-driven force-the Maw of the Depths.

Transformed and voiceless, Lira emerges into the brutal, alien world of land and air to chase a dream that was never meant for her. But as love becomes fixation and sacrifice turns monstrous, she learns that the surface world extracts its own price-and that some fairytales drown before they ever reach the shore.

Dark, lyrical, and devastating, The Drowned Voice is a gothic reimagining of the siren myth, blending psychological horror and tragic romance into a haunting meditation on identity, longing, and the cost of crossing boundaries that were never meant to be breached.