
The Legend of the Bard
Alethea Lyons(Author)
Northodox Press
Will be published approx. on 25. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-917005-26-5 (ISBN)
Description
In a world where music can reshape reality, one voice may hold the key to salvation or destruction.
Journalist William O'Shaughnessy has always rejected the Virtual - an AI-driven wasteland of uniformity and distraction. But his safe, analogue life shatters when a haunting folk tune plays on his computer, dredging up macabre visions linked to a murder he's just written about. A fateful trip to the library sets Will on a path that blurs the lines between madness and magic.
Discovering an ancient songbook, Will becomes entangled with Legend, a mesmerising Fae with secrets of her own. Together, they uncover Will's rare and dangerous gift: music magic. As scenes from the songbook come to life, the duo must navigate treacherous realms, face a manipulative Fae Queen, and unravel a prophecy tied to nuclear devastation.
With humanity's creativity and survival on the brink, Will and Legend must fight to complete a powerful ritual. But when betrayal strikes and Will finds himself a pawn in the Queen's twisted game, he must rely on the bonds of love, the power of story, and the transformative force of his own voice.
Journalist William O'Shaughnessy has always rejected the Virtual - an AI-driven wasteland of uniformity and distraction. But his safe, analogue life shatters when a haunting folk tune plays on his computer, dredging up macabre visions linked to a murder he's just written about. A fateful trip to the library sets Will on a path that blurs the lines between madness and magic.
Discovering an ancient songbook, Will becomes entangled with Legend, a mesmerising Fae with secrets of her own. Together, they uncover Will's rare and dangerous gift: music magic. As scenes from the songbook come to life, the duo must navigate treacherous realms, face a manipulative Fae Queen, and unravel a prophecy tied to nuclear devastation.
With humanity's creativity and survival on the brink, Will and Legend must fight to complete a powerful ritual. But when betrayal strikes and Will finds himself a pawn in the Queen's twisted game, he must rely on the bonds of love, the power of story, and the transformative force of his own voice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-917005-26-5 (9781917005265)
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Alethea (she/ze) writes various forms of SFF, with a particular love for science-fantasy, dark fantasy, dystopias, and folklore. Many of zir works take place at the intersection between technology and magic and ze has soft spots for found family, hopeless romances, and non-human characters. Zir published works include the supernatural dark fantasy Seer of York series and short stories in a variety of anthologies. Alethea lives in Manchester, UK with her husband, little Sprite, a cacophony of stringed instruments, and more tea than she can drink in a lifetime. All her social media, website, newsletter, etc... can be found at https://linktr.ee/alethearlyons