Tozi sitting at the edge of the Bacalar lagoon, white dress billowing in the wind

Book One

Tozi and the
Forgotten Song

The land remembers who knows how to listen.

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A novel

Tozi has spent years learning how to belong in a world that wasn't built for her. She chose practicality over music. She chose performance over presence. She built a life that looked, from the outside, like success.

Then a trip to a regenerative community in Mexico begins to unmake her quietly, the way wind unmakes sand.

Tozi and the Forgotten Song follows a young woman of Mexica (Aztec) heritage as she arrives at a community that seems to hold something she can't name, and begins to remember something she didn't know she'd lost. Around her, the land is under threat. Sacred cenotes face destruction. A corporation called TechEon believes the atmosphere can be owned. And an ancient and patient shadow is spreading through the institutions of the world, turning life into resource and connection into transaction.

But Tozi's awakening isn't a battle. It's a return. To voice. To relationship. To the knowledge that has always lived in her breath, her body, the air that moves when she sings.

A literary fantasy rooted in indigenous wisdom and ecological grief, Tozi and the Forgotten Song is a story about what it means to remember who you are — and what it costs to stay forgotten.

"The Air forgets nothing. Every Guardian who walked here. Every child who laughed. Every elder who prayed. Their breath becomes part of the wind, and I carry them."
"The Forgetting is ego without Self. A collective hunger born of isolation."
"Regeneration isn't about becoming someone new. It's about becoming you again."

The World

A world that remembers. Elements that speak. Guardians who don't control — they listen.

I

The Guardians

Ancient stewards of Air, Water, Earth, and Fire. Not wielders. Not warriors. Guardians work through relationship. The element responds when you're in alignment with it, and not before. Awakening doesn't mean gaining power. It means remembering who you've always been.

II

The Forgetting

It isn't a villain. It's a shadow born of disconnection, spreading through the idea that the Earth is inert, that life exists to be extracted, that we are fundamentally separate from what sustains us. It takes the shape of whatever the era finds reasonable: empires, industries, technologies, hollowed-out spirituality. It doesn't destroy. It drains.

III

The Land

A community in Mexico, built not by construction but by collaboration with the elements, with the earth, with generations of memory. Sacred cenotes thread beneath the limestone. A grandmother ceiba stands at the center. This is a place that has held through an era of darkness, tended by those who refused to forget.

Tozi sitting at the edge of the Bacalar lagoon, white dress billowing in the wind

The Book Comes With a Score

Tozi and the Forgotten Song will be released alongside an original musical companion written and sung by Sofia herself, under the name Sofia Cantaluz.

The music was created in conversation with the novel, tuned for parallel listening. Songs that live beside the story rather than beneath it. A score for the world the book opens into, sung from the same heart that tells Tozi's story.

Follow — @sofia.cantaluz

Music release details to be announced alongside the book.

Sofia Guderley Moreno

Sofia Guderley Moreno

Sofia Guderley Moreno grew up between languages and countries, the daughter of immigrants who loved her well and prepared her honestly for a world that would ask her to be practical. She chose business over music. She won scholarships, earned promotions, became the youngest director in the history of her firm. She told men twice her age how to run their companies.

And beneath all of it, something kept pulling.

She had been in choir as a child. She had quit and gone back and quit again. She knew what it felt like to hide what she loved. She knew what it meant to perform belonging until one day the performance didn't fit anymore.

Tozi and the Forgotten Song is her debut novel, and its companion score, released under the name Sofia Cantaluz, is hers too. The book and the music were made together, in the same act of returning. A story about finding your voice, written and sung by someone who knows exactly what it costs to lose it.

Sofia lives in Austin, Texas.

@sofia.cantaluz ↗

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No noise. Just the release, the music, and anything worth saying in between.

For readers who found themselves changed by Like Water for Chocolate or Braiding Sweetgrass. For those who love the magic of Leonora Carrington and the ecological grief of Arundhati Roy. For anyone who has ever known, without being able to explain it, that the world is more alive than the world itself admits.