The Musician and the Monster

Ceridwen Kinsley will do anything to help keep her family off the streets, but a musician has few prospects in the backwater city of Teneboure where gossip is the art of choice. Witnessing a murder at the hands, or rather claws, of something not quite human, earns her notoriety within the city and a visit from its reclusive Lord Protector, Drystan Winterbourne.Dystan arrives to offer his sympathies and present an offer that may benefit them both. He struggles daily to keep the darkness encroaching on their city at bay, but at a precious cost, one Ceridwen's music calms. If Ceridwen will live at his eerie manor and play music for him, he'll provide her family with the money they desperately need.Ceridwen agrees to his offer, and time spent together ignites feelings neither can ignore. It's the perfect arrangement, until Ceridwen discovers his deadly secret and learns more than she ever wished about the dark forces seeping out of the capital. Together, they might have a chance save those they love and their country from encroaching darkness, but only if they can overcome their inner demons.