The Sound of Stillness
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Rasmus, frontman of the rising indie band Rouhi, is slowly unraveling. Amid growing fame and mounting pressure, he's haunted by a quiet emptiness he can't explain. When a devastating betrayal breaks him completely, Ras walks away from everything-music, love, and himself.
In a quiet town by the sea, he finds stillness... and people who don't ask him to be anything but real. An old man with a past, a girl with paint on her hands, and silence that heals more than it hurts.
But healing isn't linear-and some echoes refuse to stay buried.
The Sound of Stillness is a deeply moving novel about brokenness, beauty, and the long, uncertain path to becoming whole again. Told with lyrical prose and raw honesty, it's a story about friendship, creative freedom, and finding your way back-through music, through memory, and through the people who never stopped believing in you.
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