Nocturne Bloom

A single forbidden note once shattered the Arcanum. Now that melody is blooming again—and whole towns are falling asleep mid-breath.

Exiled nocturne-weaver Eira Lys swore she’d never return to the Arcanum Conservatory… until Talon Rivenhart summons her with a warning carved in runes: the lullaby curse has awakened. Moonblooms creep through floorboards. Enchanted instruments play with no hands to guide them. A child’s voice slips through the music asking one chilling question: Are you sleeping yet?

To stop the spreading silence, Eira must do the one thing that ruined her life—listen, and weave countermelodies strong enough to break the spell. But the curse doesn’t just steal sleep. It steals songs—her songs—twisting old compositions into weapons and dragging her back through guilt she can’t outrun.

Talon is her only ally…and the man who once helped cast her out. Forced to ride together from cursed villages to haunted halls, their uneasy truce frays into something sharper, warmer, and far more dangerous than either can afford. Because every time Eira plays, the melody learns. And if it reaches its final arrangement, the world won’t just go quiet.

It will never wake.