The Architect of Silence
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Caela Voss was once a builder of harmony-an architect of silence in a world ruled by sound. Her designs promised order, peace, perfection.
Until they didn't.
When her work is twisted into a system of control, Caela becomes both its prisoner and its author. The city that once sang now obeys, and every echo reminds her of what she's done.
Captured by the rebels who see her as the enemy and haunted by the man who once controlled her, Caela must face her creation that is now used to twist the world into submission.
The Architect of Silence is a slow-burn dystopian novel of guilt, obsession, and redemption-a story of creation, ruin, and the fragile courage it takes to be heard again.
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