A young woman is both a bard-and a warrior-in this thrilling historical fantasy from the author from the Sevenwaters novels. Eighteen-year-old Liobhan is certainly a powerful vocalist and a specialist whistle player. Her brother includes a voice to melt the hardest heart, and is a uncommon talent in the harp. But Liobhan’s burning up ambition is to join the top notch warrior band on Swan Island. She and her sibling train there to contend for places, and find themselves joining a objective while still applicants. Their unusual about The Harp of Kings mixture of abilities makes them perfect for this particular job, which requires heading undercover as traveling minstrels. For Swan Isle trains both warriors and spies. Their mission: to discover and retrieve a precious harp, a historical symbol of kingship, which has gone missing. If the device is not played at the upcoming coronation, the candidate will not be accepted and the kingdom will be thrown into disarray. Confronted with plotting courtiers and tight-lipped druids, an insightful storyteller, and a boorish Crown Prince, Liobhan quickly realizes an Otherworld power may be meddling in the affairs of the kingdom. When ambition clashes with conscience, Liobhan must make a daring decision-and the consequences may break her center.