Dissonance: The Orpheus Files Book 2

by Alice Ewens

The vibration of connection isn’t always harmonious. Sometimes, it distorts. Sometimes, it has teeth. Eight months after punk guitarist Shins threw himself into the vortex behind Lingley research base, the rest of his band are searching for him in the hot Arizona desert. Nate, Jack and the others must grapple with ghosts as they end up stepping into the jaws of the fame machine, unwitting pawns in a dangerous power game of quantum proportions. Meanwhile, back in London, Costas is beginning to understand the vastness of Dawn Chorus and its tangled web. Psychedelic dreamscapes and cosmic connections unfurl with Nothing In The Cage’s music but unseen puppeteers twist it into something hateful and violent. A discordant note. Dissonance rippling outwards across the Universe. How do they discern what’s real and what are just echoes caught in the threads? Can they find their way back to themselves?

An Urban Sci-Fi tale for fans of music and theoretical physics!

285 pages, Paperback

Published March 5, 2023

About the author

Alice Ewens is a storyteller and story collector, a certified worrier, queer fiction writer and poet, music nerd and wannabe rockstar. What might happen if Joan Jett and Stevie Nicks ran at each other really fast, then ate a lot of cake. Born in Medway, in the South-East of the UK in the mid-80s, Alice briefly attended Bath Spa University to study creative writing. It didn’t work out. She worked as a transport consultant engineer for 10 years but that stopped working out, too. She now lives in Bristol, in the South-West of the UK, with a husband and a cat, is an avid tea-drinker and a fan of a well-placed swear word. She now works part-time in marketing and devotes the rest of her time to artistic pining. Alice's work is often confessional and maximalist, peeling back the layers of society to peer at the goings-on beneath. She hopes you won’t hold this against her.