The Singer of Terandria

Struggling actress Cara O'Sullivan is walking down the streets of Galway one moment, and the next she's in an ancient tomb in a faraway world. Alone in the dark, with her cellphone as her last tenuous connection to home, Cara sings her favorite song — and the song casts a spell of light into the world. From the depths, something hears her. Challenged by a ghostly knight, a tragic necromancer, and hordes of undead, can a young woman who doesn't believe in heroes become one herself?

In the Kingdom of Shade, the undead rise day after day, century after century, and only the Hunters of Noelictus deliver them back to peaceful graves. Hunter Haeight has aspired to join their guild all her life, and quickly works her way up the ranks. But there is a rot within the Kingdom of Shade. In the capital Menorome, Haeight finds a web of conspiracies among the Hunters — something is deeply wrong. The fourth Princess of Calanfer has arrived for a political marriage, unhappy and alone. And the Singer of Afiele has come to the city, her fate intertwining with the Hunter's and the Princess's in a web of secrets greater than any of them dreamed.

War threatens the Kingdom of Shades. Undead rise around Menorome, the City of Repose, and corruption festers in the Hunter's Guild. A dangerous Baron, a scuttling Witch, mysterious Hunters, and ghosts — always, ghosts — complicate Cara's attempts to make her fortunes as a performer in the capital. A rival nation is poised to invade as internal strife threatens the gloomy kingdom Cara has come to enjoy. She is just a Singer — but her music connects strange people to her, and not all secrets that lie in the grave are evil.