Set adrift from her family, Elawyn must now embark on a journey into the unknown. She and her companion, the ex-monk Thrace, confront many dangers as they search for a way to lift the curse laid on the Songstress in the Midnight Land. Her Elwyn beauty has become submerged beneath a demonic heritage she knew nothing about. Along with this unwanted metamorphosis, her thoughts and feelings grow increasingly chaotic and her nature is turning into something altogether ... different.
Elawyn’s unknown father is the key to her salvation, or so she hopes, but to find him she must travel ever further into the darkness. What will she salvation or a destiny that will plunge her deeper into turmoil?
Book I of The Songstress Trilogy, sequel to The Silver Flute Trilogy.
I began writing fantasy fiction at the age of fourteen and have been mildly obsessed with it ever since. I completed my MA in Creative Writing, at Liverpool John Moores University. In the summer of 2009, HORIZON was shortlisted at the annual novel writing competition, Pulp Idol, part of Liverpool’s Writing On The Wall Festival. I also attended a weekend writing course at Ty Neywdd, Centre for Writing in South Wales, where all the finalists had one to one sessions with published author Jenny Newman. My main influences in the fantasy genre are: Robin Hobb (aka Megan Lindholme), Jim Butcher and David Gemmell. Hobb’s work is more indicative of classic fantasy, as is Gemmell’s and Butcher’s is a mixture of both classic and contemporary urban settings. These authors’ skills at world building, in my opinion, are supreme.