Sing for the Sons

Sing for the Sons is an adult high fantasy novel, currently in the beta reading stage.


There was such a crowd around the tent that Fiona and Gillian couldn’t get through. The wall of the tent bulged as something hit it from the inside, and nervous laughter spread through the people around her.
“What’s going on?” Fiona asked.
“A demon’s throwing pies in Gillian’s,” laughed a woman.
Pies again? Fiona thought with dismay. She knew who was going to have to clean that up.
By now they were close enough to see juice leaking out from under the stained tent wall. It smelled distinctly like blackberry. A muffled giggle followed.
“Gillian will take care of it,” someone said.
But Gillian looked more than a little worried. “Got blocking magic?” he asked.
“I got something else for it,” Fiona growled. She pushed her way to the tent opening, ripped open the flap — and slipped backwards into a mess of mud and pie.
The high-pitched giggling got louder.
“That’s not a demon,” said Gillian behind her.
Fiona blinked up at the little berry-smeared apparition. “That’s a kid!”


All Fiona wanted was a place to sell her magic trinkets, and maybe a meat pie. Now a four-year-old with more magic than sense is clinging to her and calling her Yaya. When brutal cat monsters come to snatch away the little fugitive, she sees no alternative but to stand in their path. There’s only one place where they might fear to follow: a wild land she’d hoped never to see again. Are she and her wits any match for the ruthless queen who craves the boy’s power?

Once a prince, now on the run from a dying land, Puma seeks only to be rid of his cruel mother’s curse. Every day he feels his life drain away to feed her machinations. When he learns he’s not the only one being pursued by her cat-headed lackeys, his loneliness is challenged by the promise of sanctuary. Can the merchant girl really hide him? And who exactly is her strange young charge?

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