Beneath the Sunshine (The Soulmate Effect)

Prologue

The Oasis

Y ou may know me as the Forest, a place of roots and shadows, where two souls once found each other beneath my sheltering branches. But I am more than trees and leaves, more than any single form. I am a memory woven into the very fabric of love—a presence that appears when two souls are drawn together, pulled by the bond that lives within them. I am summoned by the power of their connection, a force known as the Soulmate Effect.

The Soulmate Effect is ancient, an echo from the beginning of everything. When the first soul split into countless fragments, each carried a part of the original light. These fragments wandered across lifetimes, seeking their lost halves, drawn to one another by a pull that transcends the physical. When two of these pieces reunite, they create a force strong enough to alter the very world around them—a reminder of what the universe once was: whole, complete, filled with love.