For A Songby Peggy Hogan 
| No. words: 85100 Ebook Price: $5.99 
| Genres: Fantasy, General Published: 7 / 2020 Available Formats to Download: MOBI EPUB PDF 
| | STORY DESCRIPTION Blat (an unfortunate name for a singer) is a young farmer boy recruited by the Minstrels' Guild. Fourteen years later, he has completed his studies and been a Touring Minstrel ever since. Blat needs material for a new song and follows clues in an ancient text. While travelling near Whitecap Island's glacier, silent assailants herd him into a cavern within a mountain. He stares at the colossal cylinder of rock occupying one end. Their leader, Quirindi, explains that her people maintain the machines which invigorate the cylinder. The cylinder in turn gives them long life, mind-to-mind speech, and brings light to Station One, the name of their home. But they are failing at their task and her people are dying.
He recruits Crag Bithoone, a brilliant but unstable scientist. In their search for answers, Blat is captured by the Brothers of the Watch, a sinister cult that uses telepathic power to control and punish. His mind is brutally tortured forcing his consciousness to flee into a tiny part of his brain where he cocoons himself within layers of music. When he revives, a woman encased in stone ensorcels him into destroying the cylinders which hold her captive. Blat struggles to resist - the cylinders are what the Stationers need to survive - but she is too strong. While the Station crumbles around them, she touches a map of Whitecap Island and disappears. Blat puts his finger on the same place? and is transported to a desert. He is once again taken by the Brothers and forced through an invisible barrier concealing a vast stronghold and joins hundreds of prisoners compelled to polish cylinders. On a gallery at one end of the underground cavern stands the stone woman, Mir.
Blat believes that music can block the Brothers' mind control and composes a simple song to teach his fellow captives. If the song does not work, the Brothers' plan to subjugate Whitecap Island will be unleashed at the dark of the moon. And where was Crag?
| Keywords related to this title - click on a keyword to find more, related stories Fantasy/SF Fiction/Adventure Author information: PEGGY HOGAN has lived in different places, challenged herself with a variety of careers, and travels where she hopes to find something unusual. With a degree in English and a lifelong passion for the written word, it was a simple segue to create fantasy fiction where different, challenging, and unusual is expected at every turn.
She is the award-winning author of 'For a Song,' in which a minstrel stumbles upon an entire race of people that needs saving. In 'Milo’s Burden,' a young boy inspires others to make it right, no matter the cost. 'Flotsy,' the title and protagonist of her latest novel, has dark, violent visions—visions that foresee the future. Some might call it a gift but Flotsy calls it a curse. Hogan is currently working on her next story and can hardly wait to see how it ends.
About writing, Hogan says: “Writing can transport me to a state of Zenlike oneness. It’s like, suddenly and momentarily, everything is right with the world. I become a conduit for the story that the characters must tell. Nothing is better than that.” Visit her at peggyhoganauthor.com. |
