A debut novel  ·  Literary thriller  ·  Speculative fiction

The Rumi
Resonance

Where prophecy meets physics

A Dutch-Iranian woman. A dying planet. A hidden device beneath a nuclear power plant. And a prophecy written in the stars six centuries ago.

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The story

Where the ancient
meets the urgent

Tuba returns to Iran for her grandfather's funeral — and discovers he left behind something far more dangerous than grief.

Hidden beneath the Bushehr nuclear power plant: a device capable of connecting every human consciousness on Earth — or triggering extinction in seconds. As CIA operatives, Mossad agents, arms dealers, and Revolutionary Guard commanders converge, Tuba is drawn into an ethereal realm where her late grandfather and unseen guides reveal the truth: the prophecy is real, the Earth is dying, and she may be the only person who can save it.

6Books
40Chapters
7Sacred vortices
Themes

Where the ancient meets the urgent

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Consciousness & cosmos
Astral travel, ethereal realms, near-death visions — the architecture of the unseen world
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East meets West
Iran and the Netherlands, ancient Persia and modern geopolitics, Rumi and quantum physics
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Love & identity
Estrangement and return, diaspora, chosen destiny versus free will
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Prophecy & lineage
A destiny woven six centuries ago, passing through blood and earth to reach one woman
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Earth energy
Seven sacred vortices across Iran, electromagnetic fields, and the planet's dying resonance
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Geopolitical thriller
CIA, Mossad, IRGC, arms dealers — a race to possess the most powerful device on Earth
Inside the novel

The Journey,
Chapter by Chapter

Manjil, Iran · A dying man, a book, and a secret
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Manjil · Iran
The Masnavi & the Poison
Anoushirvan is poisoned by his manservant. With his final breath, he passes a copy of Rumi's Masnavi — its pages hiding a code meant for one person alone.
Leiden · Washington · Manjil · The ethereal realm
1
Washington, D.C.
Before Dawn, Julius Logs In
A retired CIA man confirms the kill. His operation in Iran is already in motion. His wife mourns a friend, unknowing.
2
Leiden, Netherlands
A Photograph in the Archives
Tuba and David scan old pictures — and discover an image that connects David's grandfather to the last Shah of Iran.
3
Manjil · The distant past
The Khan & the Alchemist
Kurdish Khan Reza Beyg seeks the alchemist Bahram's counsel about his son Rostam — a boy whose seizures carry the gift of true prophecy.
4
The ethereal realm
The Distress Call from Earth
In another dimension, Bodhi's nightmare carries a distress signal. The Council of Elders gather — and travel through a wormhole toward the source.
5
Manjil · City morgue
What the Blackmailer Holds
Keyvan learns the poisoning has been discovered. He killed under duress — his sick mother, held hostage in a German clinic, the price of obedience.
6
Washington D.C.
An Anonymous Note
Julius meets his CIA coordinator at a restaurant. A note slipped in the restroom tells him what he feared: he and his family are no longer safe.
7
The Hague, Netherlands
A Fall, A Funeral, A Secret
Tuba falls off her bicycle in the rain. Her grandfather is dead — murdered — and it may be connected to a device that could change everything.
8
Manjil · The distant past
Ayeen's Prophecy
In deep trance, Bahram receives the full prophecy: humanity's spiral into darkness, the resonance device, and the one who must activate it — Tuba, not yet born.
Between worlds · Bethesda · Schiphol · The past
9
The ethereal realm
The Beacons Find the Call
Bodhi and the Elders trace the distress signal to Tuba, caught in near-death. In the space between worlds, they tell her what she truly is.
10
Mount Alamut · Iran
The Hidden Laboratory
Keyvan reports to John inside a secret lab carved into Mount Alamut. The code hasn't been found. John's threats extend to the entire Kimiai family.
11
Bethesda, Maryland
The Man She Married
Julius tries to reconnect with Mable, wheelchair-bound since the accident that claimed their son. Beneath the garden: a hatch. A war room. A stranger.
12
Schiphol Airport
An Unexpected Entourage
Tuba dreads returning to Iran for the first time since age four. David and Roman appear at the gate — their backpacking trip suddenly becomes something else entirely.
13
Manjil · The distant past
Roxanna, Stolen
Young Roxanna sets out on her first patrol — and is violently seized as a forced bride. Her rescue sparks negotiations guided by the alchemist's unseen hand.
14
The ethereal realm
The Architecture of Souls
Tuba receives a teaching on karma, Earth's vortices, and multiple dimensions within the same space. Then: a reunion that stops her breath.
15
Manjil · Kimiai residence
The Book of Rumi
Tuba arrives at her grandmother's house. Tala presses a worn copy of the Masnavi into her hands — her grandfather's final gift, still warm with intention.
16
Bethesda · Underground
The Hatch in the Garden
Julius reveals his secret war room. Mable stares at the stranger she has been married to for decades — and his vast, dangerous plan.
Iran's sacred lands · The ethereal realm · Tehran
17
Manjil
The Inheritance
A lawyer reads the will: seven pieces of sacred land across Iran, each with a caretaker, each connected to an energy vortex she must now protect.
18
Manjil · The distant past
Bahram Weaves the Thread
Six centuries of deliberate choices, guided by the spirit Ayeen. Every arranged marriage, every negotiation — all to ensure Tuba would be born into exactly this frequency.
19
The ethereal realm
The Vortices & Their Shadows
Anoushirvan guides Tuba through two sacred sites. At each, she meets her own demons — and the living adversary who embodies that shadow.
20
Hills of Manjil
The Gift That Runs in Blood
Sohrab reveals the truth on horseback: the attempts on their lives, the skill of astral travel, and why every caretaker of her land can walk between worlds.
21
Turkey · Iran
The Weapons Shipment
Julius's smuggled weapons cross the border disguised as medical supplies. On his surveillance screens: his grandson — and an old enemy he hoped was gone.
Across Iran · The forests · The deep past
22
Manjil
Roman's Whisper
A tender moment between Tuba and David is interrupted. Tuba spots Roman in a strange conversation with Keyvan — and something shifts beneath the surface.
23
Aladaghlar · The distant past
The Caretakers Ride
Rostam leads a caravan to initiate a new land guardian. A prophetic dream guides him — and the mission expands beyond Iran's borders.
24
The ethereal realm
Five Vortices, Five Adversaries
From Persepolis to Golestan to the Aladaghlar mountains — Tuba journeys through each energy centre and confronts the adversary who embodies each wound.
25
Hyrcanian Forest
The Helicopter & the Abduction
A sacred forest ceremony is torn apart by tear gas. A helicopter seizes Roya — mistaking her for Tuba. The book vanishes. Roman disappears.
26
Bethesda · Tehran
Mable's Farewell Note
Julius finds his wife has left him — and followed the trail to Iran. A flashback reveals: Roman was recruited long ago, and David was never a coincidence.
Tehran · Kish Island · Gheshm · The freight ship
27
Tehran
Roman Burns It Down
David goes after Roman — and finds him hacking Julius's associate's devices and stealing cryptocurrency. Then David is drugged.
28
Tehran
Hezbollah Intercepts the Truck
The weapons convoy is seized. Amir Hossein learns of a Mossad agent in the IAEA delegation. At Tala's door: Mable, bearing everything she knows.
29
Mount Damavand
The First Separation
Tuba achieves astral travel for the first time — and immediately sees David unconscious on a Tehran villa floor. Julius appears at the roadside.
30
Kish Island
Gunmen in the Underground City
In Kish's ancient underground passages, armed men open fire. A desperate escape by dinghy — but someone dies, and Tuba's doubt reaches its darkest point.
31
Mount Alamut · Freight ship
The Laboratory Implodes
Sohrab programs the Alamut lab to self-destruct. On a freight ship, Julius watches the explosion — and learns Abbas intends to crack open Tuba's skull.
32
The past · Bushehr
The Simorgh Resonator
The truth of Anoushirvan's life's work: the Alamut device was always a decoy. The real machine — capable of elevating all human consciousness — sleeps beneath Bushehr.
33
The ethereal realm
The Valley of the Stars
At the seventh vortex, Tuba faces her final adversary: herself. Her father's spirit appears — and then it is time for him to cross to the other side.
34
Tehran · Freight ship
The Women & the ISIS Man
Mable, Tala and Parisa hold the CIA villa together until an intruder enters. Three women, one door, one way out. At sea, Fahd's rage becomes a gun.
Washington · The past · Bushehr · The Hague
35–36
Washington · Gavkhouni Wetlands
The Decision to Erase Her
Benedict orchestrates an attack on Bushehr. In the past, Sohrab says goodbye to Parisa — and asks her to forget everything, forever.
37
The ethereal realm
The Gift of Agency
Celebrated by her ancestors, Tuba confronts what she cannot accept: she had no choice. Her grandfather offers her something unexpected — a way back, on her own terms.
38
Bushehr Nuclear Facility
The Manifesto
Tuba walks onto the stage before the world's press and scientists. David descends below the reactor. She speaks. He pulls the lever. The Simorgh Resonator awakens.
39
Leiden · The recent past
The Sleeping Company
Roman was recruited twice. The second time — in the Leiden Observatory — was by someone else. Someone who always wanted Tuba to succeed.
40
The Hague
The Constellation on Her Skin
Tuba wakes from a coma in a Dutch hospital. A pattern of birthmarks traces the stars of Boötes — her grandfather's favourite constellation. The resonance was real.
Tina Ehrami — author portrait
The Author

Tina Ehrami

Debut Novelist · The Hague

Born in Iran, rooted in the Netherlands since age nine. Shaped by two worlds, two languages, and two ways of knowing. A woman who moves between the sacred and the mysterious.

A political scientist by training, a civil servant by profession — and a storyteller compelled by the edges of consciousness, quantum physics, and the quiet architecture of near-death experiences.

"I am an alchemist of experience, turning feeling into meaning, mathematics into magic, pain into awareness."
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— Rumi · Masnavi