What Harmony Forgot

"I am starting to wonder whether some of what we call error is where the living happens."What if perfect harmony were the most dangerous thing a world could want?Cassia Alarian has spent thirty years mastering the resonant forces that shape emotion, craft, and place. Then a new invention appears that can create flawless harmony anywhere, in hours, and the Conservatory sends her to judge whether it is a breakthrough or a fraud.Alongside Tristan Naveran, the pragmatic builder assigned as her guide, she follows its effects through communities where music, art, and craft have become perfect, and something essential has gone quiet. Cassia has spent her life learning how harmony works. She was never taught to ask what it might cost.What she uncovers will challenge her training, her institution, and everything her world has forgotten. And somewhere along the way, something else begins to resonate between them.A quiet, haunting fantasy about magic, memory, and the imperfections that make a life one's own, What Harmony Forgot begins The First Voices, an epic fantasy series told in two perspectives. For readers drawn to the questions of The Giver, with an intricate magic system, mature protagonists, and a slow-burn romance.