The Eternal Muse Box Set: Books 1-5

A minstrel and a priestess, caught in a web of heretical magic. Two churches who use that same magic to destroy any who oppose them.

Piper Palmeres is a minstrel, possessed by secret magic, driven by his music, that he desperately hides. Writing and performing songs for a play, he unwittingly unleashes his power on the audience, including the Hierarch of the Church of Auld, who demands his arrest for heresy. Piper is chased from the theatre and city, losing everything. His only hope for redemption is to flee to neighboring Eften, as a spy for a rebel bishop.
Alaria Nattari is a Gatekeeper, a warrior priestess of Eften, sworn to serve her country’s Church. But the Hierarch who recruited her, who sought to understand and free the emotional magic of the One, dies suddenly. He’s replaced by a woman who would burn down the world with her ambition, starting with any Efteni who oppose her.
Piper and Alaria must find a way to stop a horrific war between their countries, while discovering the truth about the magical muse running through them and their music, that destroys every good thing in their lives. What is that power, and what is its source? Why do the churches persecute those who can sense and use it, stripping away all emotion and thought, leaving them as unfeeling beasts?

The Eternal Muse consists of a trilogy, and prequels. The trilogy should be read in order, the prequels can be read at any time.

The Trilogy order:
The Eternal Muse: Desecration
The Eternal Muse: Revelation
The Eternal Muse: Absolution

Prequels:
The Eternal Muse: Passion and Fear (Short story)
The Eternal Muse: The Gatekeeper’s Way (novella)
The Eternal Muse: The Maligned Minstrel (novel)

If you want to read Passion and Fear, it’s free, and available by joining my mailing list, at my website.