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Heavenly Music
by Arla JonesWella Larksong has spent her whole life playing tavern tunes on a dead man's violin, never asking why the candles bend toward her when she plays. She gets her answer the night the Lumenguard rides into her village looking for a voice born of starblood — and finds it in her.
Swept up to Hallowmoon Spire to train as the next Nightingale, the lone singer whose Hymn keeps the world's oldest wound sealed, Wella learns her predecessor died climbing these same stairs nineteen years ago, and that the official story is a lie. Her fierce, grief-guarded Guard-Captain, Chaim, believes her before she has proof. The kindly Archchancellor who calls her "my dear" does not.
As the Veil begins to fail faster than anyone will admit, Wella has weeks to expose a conspiracy three hundred years in the making, or become its next casualty, unless she and Chaim are willing to break every rule the Choir has ever written about what a Nightingale's Hymn is allowed to be.
Some songs were never meant to be sung alone.
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