The playlist for Marked by Fate wasn’t something I created after the book was finished — it was part of the heartbeat that helped me write it. Music has always been the way I make sense of the world, and building this playlist was how I stepped deeper into Noa and Christopher’s world until it felt real beneath my hands.
Every song here played a role in shaping the story: the mood of a chapter, the rhythm of a character’s thoughts, the emotional storms they’re wrestling with when the words alone weren’t enough. Sometimes the right lyric cracked something open in me. Sometimes a melody captured an entire scene before it ever hit the page. These tracks helped me understand how my characters breathe, how they love, how they panic, and how they break — and how they try so hard to put themselves back together again.
Creating this playlist was fun, yes — but it was also grounding. It helped me build the world of Marked by Fate into something alive, something that thrums under the surface with feeling and grit and hope. I’m excited to finally share that with you.
Welcome to the soundtrack behind the story.
Somewhere I Belong
Linkin Park
Meteora
Release Year:
2003
Genre:
Alternative Rock
Why This Song?
Christopher starts this story feeling misplaced in his own life — shaped, studied, and steered by forces he never chose. This song captures that early ache: the desperation to feel real, understood, and allowed to exist beyond what the CCA wants from him. It’s the perfect pulse for Chapter One because it mirrors exactly where his heart begins.
Character(s) the
Song Represents:
Christopher Hawthorne
