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World's First Full-Cast Musical Audiobook Created by a Single Artist

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The Abyss - Album Update

First Single: finished, now in mixing stages
Second single: finished, slated for mixing
Album: tracking drums, bass, guitars

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What Readers Are Saying:

“The writing style is the perfect mixture of witty and funny and imaginative and creative, while also being a fast-paced, interesting story. I cried and laughed and screamed and gasped, all the things a good book makes you do!” 

 

“...a totally fresh, unique spin on the futuristic sci-fi genre. An epic, mind-bending adventure!

 

“The story is original, unlike any other fantasy book I've read.”

 

“This book is on a whole other level.” 

 

“I just finished the whole book in one sitting and I absolutely LOVED it! It's been a minute since there was a good book to pull on my heartstrings.” 

 

“I am already on my second time reading & listening to this book! It’s absolutely on a level of its own. Between the new language and the music to listen to while reading this book, it is truly a masterpiece!”

 

“This book is FANTASTIC! So relatable! Shaun, your mind is brilliant.” 

 

“I got sucked into this book right away, and that hasn't happened to me in such a long time. This world around Kassiana is so in-depth and emotional.”

 

“I got sucked into this book right away, and that hasn't happened to me in such a long time. This world around Kassiana is so in-depth and emotional. It's such an engaging story, and one of the best sci-fi books I've read so far.” 

 

“This book has officially set the bar for audio books for me with an entire cast narrating the whole thing, a full musical score from start to finish, and literally every single amazing thing that I love about storytelling.”

 

“This is one of the greatest books I’ve ever read in my life!”

 

“Beautiful book and audiobook, it’s like a sci-fi movie in my head!”

All Sirens must earn their place on Paradise—even those born into it.

 

In the year 2132, fifteen-year-old Kassiana Rivernova lives in luxury on Nemal, the most opulent of the Paradise Planets. She never questions the suffering on flooded Earth or the Gaians struggling to survive in its ruins.

Until the day she’s stolen.

Torn from her privileged world and forced to live among Earth’s outcasts, Kassi is silenced in the most devastating way. After a violent assault ruptures her vocal cords—in a society where voice is power—she’s forced to prove she belongs on Paradise by competing in the Siren Games: the premier vocal competition across the galaxies.

Voiceless and broken, Kassi joins a team of underdogs with no real shot at winning. Her only hope is rescue. But as her bonds with her teammates deepen, Kassi must make an impossible choice: save herself… or risk everything for the people who’ve become her family.

Because on Earth, nothing is given.
And sometimes, the price of Paradise… is everything.

After a narrow victory in Round One of the Siren Games, Kassiana Rivernova faces her greatest challenge yet in Round Two: The Abyss. Haunted by her team’s high expectations and the traumas of her recent past, Kassi must hold her focus—even as deepening bonds test her heart and the deadly trials of The Abyss push her limits.

 

Meanwhile, Amára Rivernova races against time to rescue Enzo from the the U.N.O.E. Her only hope lies in an unlikely alliance with Enzo’s enigmatic brother, Nikola. Together, they must infiltrate the most fortified prison on Earth before Enzo disappears forever.

 

Caught between Ravana’s Revolutionaries, President Odyssey Nines and his mediation officers, and the Council of Creators, Kassi and Amára are swept into an intergalactic power struggle where nothing—and no one—is what they seem. As betrayals surface and loyalties are tested, the dream of returning to Paradise slips farther out of reach.

 

In this gripping sequel, Kassi and Amára must navigate impossible choices, where survival, love, and loyalty collide and the dream of Paradise may cost them everything.

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