Gate In Her Voice

Her voice once opened stone doors. Now a predator wears it as a key. To save Ronan, Freya must choose silence, smear her own name from rock, and prove love is a choice, not an entrance.Freya's voice has always been more than sound. In the wrong places, it becomes a signal. In the wrong hands, it becomes access. When a hidden trail pulls her into a river gorge where moss-covered stone doors respond to resonance, she realizes the world has been listening for her longer than she ever knew.Ronan should have been the one constant that danger couldn't touch, steady and present beside her. But the doors don't only open. They learn. They echo. And when an ancient hunger named Maelis begins to wear familiar voices like masks, Freya is forced to face a terrifying truth: the very gift that makes her feel alive can also be used to turn her love into a lockpick.With the river loud enough to swallow secrets and the stone patient enough to memorize mercy, Freya and Ronan must cross a landscape of listening rock, broken patterns, and doors that want a name more than they want a key. Saving him may require the one choice Freya never imagined making. Not a louder song. Not a stronger spell. But silence, claimed on purpose, so no one else can carve it into a cage.