Lucia never intended to uncover an archive.

 

Elias never expected to survive one.

 

When an impossible record surfaces, they become entangled in a hidden institution that has spent decades deciding which lives are preserved, rewritten, or quietly discarded.

 

What begins as curiosity becomes pursuit.

 

What begins as attraction becomes trust.

 

And what begins as survival becomes a fight to remain human in a world where procedure has replaced mercy.

 

Quiet Fire is a story about love under pressure, institutional secrecy, memory, and the quiet courage required to choose another person when every system insists otherwise.

Title: Quiet Fire ©️

 

Genre: Psychological Noir Romantic Thriller

 

Status: Completed manuscript

 

Length: Approximately 120,000 words

Peter Shoneye is a Black poet, novelist, songwriter, composer, and photographer.

 

He is the author of Days After The Storm and the creator of music released through Keystrum Productions Inc.

 

His work explores memory, longing, identity, music, and the quiet spaces where people discover who they truly are.

 

Quiet Fire ©️ represents years of literary development and marks the beginning of a new chapter in his career as a novelist.

✔ July 2026 — Manuscript completed.

 

✔ July 2026 — Literary querying begins.

 

Later…

 

✔ Representation announced.

 

✔ Publishing agreement.

 

✔ Release date.