A high fantasy following a young woman’s defiance of her culture as she undertakes an unhealthy quest to restore her world’s dropped magic in Ilana C. Myer’s Last Tune Before Night.

Her name was Kimbralin Amaristoth: sister to a cruel brother, daughter of the hateful family members. But that name she has forsworn, and today she is merely Lin, a musician and lyricist of unusual ability in a land where women are forbidden to response such callings-a fugitive who must conceal her identification or risk imprisonment and about Last Tune Before Night time: The Harp and Band Sequence #1 actually death.

For the eve of an excellent festival, Lin learns an ancient scourge has returned to the property of Eivar, a pandemic both deadly and unnatural. Its resurgence brings with it the memory of the apocalypse that transformed half a continent. Way back when, magic was everywhere, rising from artistic expression-from melody, from verse, from stories. However in Eivar, where poets once wove enchantments from their words and harps, the power was dropped. Forbidden experiments in bloodstream divination unleashed the plague that is remembered as the Red Death, killing thousands before it was ended, and Eivar’s connection to the Otherworld from which all enchantment flowed, damaged.

The Crimson Death’s return can mean only 1 thing: someone is spilling innocent blood in order to grasp dark magic. Now poets who thought and then gain fame because of their songs face challenging much better: galvanized by Valanir Ocune, biggest Seer of the age, Lin and several others attempt to reclaim their legacy and reopen the best way to the Otherworld-a pursuit that will test their deepest wishes, imperil their lives, and decide the future.