The Iron Bard of Iere

By Shazadah Luke

He died on Ariapita Avenue. He woke in a world made of sound.

Melo Charles is eleven years into a marketing career he's too tired to quit, working a Friday night launch under a speaker tower held up by six bolts. Five, if you're strict.

Four, if you're real strict.

The tower falls. Melo wakes in Iere - the spirit-twin of Trinidad, where music is magic and every note carries force. And Melo, never exceptional at anything but rhythm, learns he is a Shadowwright: the rarest resonance-wielder alive, and the first in seventeen years.

The last one was his father.

Now the shadow that took Keegan Charles is opening again, and behind it waits the Bookman - a Dragon Lord of ink and shadow who believes destiny is something you write down and hold people to.

Melo has three weeks to unite six clans who have spent centuries refusing each other. He has no army, no plan, and no idea what happened to his father.

He has two pan sticks and a note in his chest that will not stop ringing.

For readers who love isekai and portal fantasy, hard-earned magic systems, and worlds that don't look like every other fantasy shelf.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G4LSFPKK
• ISBN13: 9798276829173
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"