Jane Wiseman

The Nightingale Holds Up the Sky Jane Wiseman

Say you've been kidnapped and dragged to the underworld. Say the man who loves you wanders the realm looking for you. Say he finds a way in. Say you don't want to be found. As for the fate of the realm in the grip of evil, the fate of the world underneath the Spheres; as for justice-what if you forge your own? The Nightingale Holds Up the Sky, volume 2 of the Betwixt & Between companion series to the Stormclouds/Harbingers fantasy novels, explores a world "betwixt and between," a ghostly place where the inhabitants discover their true natures. When the Wild Hunt rides out underneath the Hunter's Moon, the balance of the Spheres is upheld. But if corruption invades the Undercroft, the Spheres themselves may come crashing down. A little bit Orpheus and Eurydice (with a twist), a little bit Sleeping Beauty (stood on its head), with a big dollop of demonic possession and a smidge of time travel, this novel ends the nine-book series. The Stormclouds/Harbingers fantasy novels are, in chronological order: Stormclouds: A Gyrfalcon for a King, The Call of the Shrike, StormbirdHarbingers: Blackbird Rising, Halcyon, Firebird, Ghost BirdBetwixt & Between, the companion series: The Martlet is a Wanderer (events during the same time as Halcyon), and The Nightingale Holds Up the Sky (events spanning the time of Halcyon, Firebird, and Ghost Bird) AND NOW: Dark Ones Take It, the origin story of Caedon and his brother Maeldoi, the Dark Rider