Happy Hump-day, folks! Beth, here. I'm excited to announce the release of SONGSTONE, a YA Fantasy novel by Lena Goldfinch which released this week! Check it out!
Kita can meld song into stone. In a world with no written
word, storytelling—the ability to meld (or magically impress) song into
stone—is greatly honored. The village honors her master as their medicine man,
but Kita knows he's secretly a sorcerer who practices black magic using drops
of her blood. She fears he’ll use her beautiful gift for a killing spell, so
she conceals it from him. Each day, his magic tightens around her neck like a
rope. His spells blind the villagers, so they can’t see him for what he really
is.
Not that anyone would want to help her. She was found in the
forest as a baby and would have died if a village girl hadn't brought her home.
But the villagers saw Kita's unusual coloring and decided she belonged to the
mysterious tribe who lives in the forests of the volcano, a people feared for
their mystical powers. So they fear her too. Now seventeen, she can barely
admit her deepest longing: to know who she really is and where she belongs.
Then Pono, a young journeyman, arrives from the other side
of the island. He's come to fulfill a pact between their villages: to escort a
storyteller back to his village--a storyteller who'll be chosen at the great
assembly. Finally, in Pono, Kita sees her one slim chance at freedom and she'll
risk her life to take it.
A dark, twisty tale of sorcery, tummy-tingling romance, and
adventure, inspired by the folklore of New Zealand's Māori people.
Sounds fantastic! Right? You can download SONGSTONE for just 99 cents at Amazon. Or, if Amazon is not your thing, you can get it at Barnes & Noble.
Happy reading. :-)
4 comments:
Yay, Lena!
Congrats Lena! Sounds awesome!
THANK YOU!!
Lena
Congrats to the author! AS for the story, definitely sounds promising and I'm loving the cover. *throws confetti*
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