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Music the Gathering: A Most Inconvenient Curse
Music, Magic, & Mayhem
When a bird steal’s Azia’s voice, she and her traveling bard companions have little choice but to try and get it back. The journey won’t be an easy one as all paths lead to a cursed valley rife with fearsome beasts and other formidable dangers. There are enemies aplenty, but these bards are far from helpless.
Liv is a druid, as in tune with nature as she is in song. Marco is a warrior, as dangerous with his quarterstaff as he is with his violin. And Azia, well, she’s as quick-footed as she is hot-tempered, and deadly with both her drums and her daggers.
Together, the three of them must face dangers they never imagined.
Can the traveling trio beat the odds, survive the cursed valley, and get Azia’s voice back?
Music the Gathering has performed at countless Renaissance festivals, bringing music and laughter to people everywhere they go. For the first time, their characters are brought to life on the page in a full-length fantasy novel!
When a bird steal’s Azia’s voice, she and her traveling bard companions have little choice but to try and get it back. The journey won’t be an easy one as all paths lead to a cursed valley rife with fearsome beasts and other formidable dangers. There are enemies aplenty, but these bards are far from helpless.
Liv is a druid, as in tune with nature as she is in song. Marco is a warrior, as dangerous with his quarterstaff as he is with his violin. And Azia, well, she’s as quick-footed as she is hot-tempered, and deadly with both her drums and her daggers.
Together, the three of them must face dangers they never imagined.
Can the traveling trio beat the odds, survive the cursed valley, and get Azia’s voice back?
Music the Gathering has performed at countless Renaissance festivals, bringing music and laughter to people everywhere they go. For the first time, their characters are brought to life on the page in a full-length fantasy novel!
343 pages, Paperback
Published May 3, 2021
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About the author
J.H. Fleming
18 books18 followersJ.H. Fleming is the author of Jack of Crows, the Music the Gathering series, The Call of the Fae series, Rhythms of Magic, and Peter Pixie, Mayor of the Multiverse: The Black Wand. Her work has appeared in anthologies by NewCon Press, Evil Girlfriend Media, Mocha Memoirs Press, Seventh Star Press, and Pro Se Productions, as well as New Realm Magazine and Visionary Tongue Magazine. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Central Arkansas.
In her free time, she enjoys reading, playing video games, and learning other languages. She'd prefer to live in a library in the middle of a forest, and has so far collected fourteen hundred books toward the goal. Until then, she and her partner live just over the Arkansas-Missouri state line, where they keep buying more books than they have room for.
In her free time, she enjoys reading, playing video games, and learning other languages. She'd prefer to live in a library in the middle of a forest, and has so far collected fourteen hundred books toward the goal. Until then, she and her partner live just over the Arkansas-Missouri state line, where they keep buying more books than they have room for.
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June 14, 2021
Wonderfully Fun Adventure
This book was a fast-paced page turner from the outset! J.H. captured the spirits of these 3 amazing humans with humor and the wild adventure brought on by a seemingly simple act is epic! I met J.H. at the Oklahoma Renaissance Festival and she was kind and unaffected by the lot of us who interrupted her private enjoyment of the frivolity of this treo at the Faire. I'm looking forward to her next adventure on paper!! The book was enjoyable from beginning to end!!
This book was a fast-paced page turner from the outset! J.H. captured the spirits of these 3 amazing humans with humor and the wild adventure brought on by a seemingly simple act is epic! I met J.H. at the Oklahoma Renaissance Festival and she was kind and unaffected by the lot of us who interrupted her private enjoyment of the frivolity of this treo at the Faire. I'm looking forward to her next adventure on paper!! The book was enjoyable from beginning to end!!
March 11, 2024
A quick and easy read that feels like you’re reading a D&D campaign. It wasn’t confusing with overly complicated names and descriptions (as I personally find is the case with a lot of fantasy), but still has that whimsical flair that keeps things interesting and the plot moving forward. The last 80 pages or so was a whirlwind and I couldn’t put it down!
December 21, 2023
So, this was my first book to read by J.H. Fleming and it was absolutely enthralling. It's a quick read, but so rich with imagery and evocative of so many senses. I loved the group of adventurers and I love her writing style; I will be reading all her other books!
October 25, 2022
This was a joy to read! J.H. Fleming did a terrific job adapting the talented, real-life musical trio — Music the Gathering — to fantasy novel form.
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