Tozi and the
Forgotten Song

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 a shadow — ancient, shapeless, patient — 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 mythology 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.

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: not a soundtrack, but a 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.

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.

This is a self-published work. That was a deliberate choice — to keep the book as close to its own voice as possible, and to bring it directly to the readers it belongs to.

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