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Breath Between Sounds
Paperback
Publisher: Davis Shyaka Musirikare
Published: Mar 24 2026
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the city of Oriton, noise is the law. To be silent for more than five minutes is to be a threat to the state. Everyone wears a Linker-a silver device embedded in the neck that ensures constant, monitored communication. In this world, Small Talk is the only thing keeping you safe from the Peace Officers.
Sana is a Monitor, a woman whose life is spent listening to the endless, meaningless chatter of a city that never sleeps. Her world is a gray landscape of weather reports and dinner plans-until she hears Kael. He doesn't speak. He doesn't follow the script. Instead, he hums a melody that feels like a forgotten memory, a spark of rebellion in a sea of static.
When Sana chooses to protect Kael instead of reporting him, she is drawn into the Stillness-an underground resistance movement practicing the forbidden art of silence. As the Ministry of Harmony prepares a global update that will silence human thought forever, Sana and Kael must navigate a landscape of betrayal and surveillance to find the Great Southern Valley-a place where the heart can finally be heard.
Breath Between Sounds is a cinematic, emotionally-charged dystopian journey. It is a story of sacrifice, identity, and the discovery that true connection doesn't require a single word. In a world of forced noise, can two souls find the courage to be quiet?
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