As
promised last week, here comes a special preview of the sequel to The Song of the Wren-Falcon!
Tentative Title: A Traitor’s Prayer
Possible Alternative Title: The Flight of the Moth
Characters: Many of the
characters you know from The Song of the
Wren-Falcon, but with a few new faces thrown into the mix—and, well, some
old faces making re-appearances in such unexpected ways that they might as well
be brand-new characters!
Conflict: Since the end of The Song of the Wren-Falcon, Adelfia has
enjoyed six years of peace. Sorek and Orienne are busy with their growing
family, as are Cyrus and Viette, and Ryker and Ashnin. Sorek’s biggest problems
are trying to keep neighboring countries happy about trade rates, and trying to
figure out where his four-year-old learned the word “disembowel”…until a message
from Moritar gives him reason to fear that the peace they have been enjoying
may not last much longer.
A
mysterious dark power has taken hold in Moritar’s capital city. King Saras is
dead, murdered by sorcery. And although the ominous turn of events points
at Shekiah Hyn, the only known sorcerer remaining in Moritar, she has disappeared
and not even Adelfia’s deepest spies can locate her.
Sorek
fears that the peace is ending, and that things are about to take a turn for
the worse. What he doesn’t know is that the Second Prophecy is about to fulfill
itself in ways more wildly incredible than anything he could ever have
imagined.
Old
fears are about to raise their heads again. Old wounds are about to be
reopened. Dark pasts will be revealed. Friendships will be strained to the
breaking point. Love will bloom in impossible places. The darkness will deepen,
and the cost of defeating it will climb.
What I’m Excited About: In this book I
not only get to continue the personal stories of the central characters from
Book 1 (characters like Sorek, Orienne, and Allegar), but I also get to dive
much deeper into some of the secondary characters who didn’t really have that
much time in the spotlight in the first book (characters like Gabriel, Albrius, and
Shekiah). I’m so excited about this! It was hard for me to leave these
characters largely unexplored and undeveloped in Song of the Wren-Falcon, but the wait is definitely proving worth
it! (Now you all can get to know them as well as I do!)
I’m
excited about the message of this story—in many ways a re-hash or continuation
of the message of Book 1, but woven through enough plot twists and surprises to
make it fresh and new.
I’m
excited to introduce a couple of new characters as well…but their identities
are still classified and you’ll just have to wait and read the book. :P
And
of course, because I am a hopeless
romantic, I can’t help being super excited about the two love stories that will
play out over the course of Book 2. I won’t say much—this isn’t a spoiler post,
after all—but I will say that one of the love stories will be both hilarious
and heart-wrenching, and the other one will be deeply moving and absolutely
gorgeous. And heart wrenching. (Sorry, that’s just the way it turned out. Don’t
worry, my publisher and I are currently discussing the logistics of inserting
small packets of tissues in the back of every hard copy of the book. [Some
restrictions apply; not available with digital versions of the book.])
But what I’d really like to know is: What
are you looking forward to in Book 2?
What are you hoping to see? Share your thoughts! Who knows? If I like your
ideas, you might just end up influencing the story. So don’t be shy!
