"Lysandra Thorne collects maps not of lands, but of souls. For as long as she can remember, the echoes of other people's emotions cling to her skin like a second dermis, each fleeting joy, each ancestral terror, each silenced longing resonating in her veins with the insistence of a dark tide. It is not a blessing, but an exquisitely woven curse; a gift that isolates her in an archipelago of sensations no one else can understand.
For years, she has navigated this inner ocean alone, learning to silence the most agonizing whispers, to catalog the invisible scars that humanity leaves in its wake, becoming a scholar of the unspeakable, a guardian of secrets that time itself has chosen to forget. She takes refuge in the shadows of antique shops and forgotten libraries, seeking solace in the stillness of objects that have borne silent witness to countless lives, each a beacon in her stormy perception.
But when a An ancient enigma emerges from the shadows of history—an artifact that not only cries out with the pain of a collective past, but seems to recognize it—Lysandra finds herself drawn into a maelstrom that threatens to crumble the fragile barriers she has erected around her mind. This new echo is different: hungry, intelligent, and dangerously seductive. It not only shows her fragments of a forgotten tragedy, but offers her the key to understanding the true nature of her existence, a knowledge so deep and terrifying that it could set her free or consume her entirely.
Now, the cartographer of whispers must chart the most dangerous route of all: the one that delves into the heart of her own mystery, confronting truths that could rewrite not only her past, but the fate of a legacy she never knew she carried. For there are pains that, once awakened, seek not to be healed, but to be shared. And Lysandra's is about to resonate with the force of a tempest.