My Debut Novel - "Beneath the Cloudline"
After years of scattered notes, dreams that wouldn't let me sleep, and more coffee than I care to admit, I finally finished my first novel.
It's called Beneath the Cloudline. Book one of a series of three novels.
Where It Started
This story began the way the best ones do: uninvited.
I kept dreaming of people swinging between towers—acrobats of survival—moving through a city that had forgotten them. They lived between worlds, where altitude defined privilege and attitude defined worth. Above the clouds, elegance without empathy. Below, labor without recognition. And yet, in the thin air between, something brave still climbed: the idea that connection, not height, makes us human.
I didn't know what it meant. I only knew it wouldn't leave me alone.
So I followed it.
That single image became a divided city where the powerful lived above the clouds and the forgotten lived below. Two young lives colliding across that divide. A shared myth buried in fog. A climb—literal and otherwise—back toward something we'd lost.
Years later, that dream became this book.
What It Is
Beneath the Cloudline is a young adult sci-fi fable about broken systems, found family, and what happens when the people we overlook become the ones holding everything together.
It's about the spaces between us—the distances we create, the bridges we burn, and the courage it takes to rebuild them.
And it's the first of three books that will follow these characters as they navigate a world that was never designed for people like them to rise.
What It Took
This has been more than just writing. It's been about trusting a vision when it felt impossible. Believing in a story long enough to finish it. Learning that "someday" only becomes real when you show up, again and again, even on the days when the words won't come.
I'm equal parts proud, nervous, and overwhelmed in the best possible way.
If you've ever asked me, "So, where's the book?"—thank you. Truly. That question became fuel. It reminded me that someone was waiting, that this mattered beyond my own head.
What's Next
More details are forthcoming, including the official release date and where you can purchase it. I look forward to your reading it. - PL
Stay tuned. The climb is just beginning.
