Sheshan ak'Kal has sung to Wind all his life--but he never learned the eerie songs of Wind's angry sister, the Hag. And when the Hag killed his love, she killed his songs, as well. Now she is threatening the hard-won peace and fragile new love he has found with the most unlikely of women. Forced to a journey he does not want to make, Sheshan finds himself pursued by a host of evil memories and a keening, impossible note he does not want to hear...and must learn to sing, or it will kill everything he loves.

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Jetta ak'Kal, once the most talented Firedancer in all the clans, is haunted by the memory of a failure that took the life of her beloved. Asked to protect a village that has never known fire, she must battle both their prejudices and her growing certainty that her enemy— the Ancient, the living, elemental fire—has learned to think. And the Dance that controls it is failing...

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Reviews for Firedancer

"This book was nearly impossible to put down, with compelling characters and such an original concept that I was driven to discover more about this world."
(Science Fiction and Other Oddyseys)

"...marvelous fantasy adventure, outside the usual boxes."
"The story kept pulling me back to pick it [up] and read more, even when I had other things to do...Can't wait for the next book." (Amazon review)

"What a fascinating book! Tightly written, it dips and dives into the recesses of the mind like one of those worms in sci-fi thrillers that gets into your brain through the ear canal and then takes you over."
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"Firedancer almost caused me a sleepless night. I just had to go on reading about what happens to Jetta and the friends she finds..." (Smashwords review)

"...a really satisfying read, smoothly written, with beautiful descriptions and a main character who is fun to spend time with." (Goodreads review)

Scraggy the hangman made a bargain with a witch to get a magic rope that ensures he'll never hang an innocent. But surely it can't be right about the newest sinner who's been brought to justice.

This dark fantasy novella is a quick, shivery read.

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Reviews for Who Mourns for the Hangman?

"The writing is amazing–instantly captivating, utterly mesmerizing, and one-hundred-percent haunting." (Rites of Romance Reviews)

"...an imaginative dark fantasy that is sure to thrill all who read it." (Novel Musings)

"The touch of the paranormal adds to the eerie atmosphere as WHO MOURNS FOR THE HANGMAN? is nothing short of superb." (Debbie Wiley at Book Illuminations)

"Once you finish the story you will feel like you have stepped out of an old folklore dark tale." (The Horror Press)