When a fragment of light crashes into the world, it leaves behind not stone, but a dying messenger, and a crystal shard that hums with an otherworldly rhythm. Years later, Kaelen, a blacksmith's orphan apprentice, wears that shard at his chest—never knowing it marks him as the hunted key to a war between resonance and silence.
As the dread Umbral Empire marches across the land, villages fall to a plague of stillness called the Quietening. When the soldiers arrive in Kaelen's home, he discovers that the shard he carries is no trinket—it is an Echo, the last fragment of a cosmic song the Umbral seek to erase forever.
Joined by Lyra, an exiled scholar with secrets of her own, Kaelen is thrust into a desperate journey: to uncover the Sunken Library, the mythical resting place of the Chronos Codex, a book said to hold the future's many songs. If they fail, the Umbral will silence not just kingdoms, but the very soul of existence.
Epic, lyrical, and unflinchingly human, The Echo of a Shooting Star is the beginning of a saga about courage, memory, and the music of survival.