I am Lyric, locutor of Heathland.

With these words begins an epic saga set in a light fantasy realm, where a young heroine of considerable skill is given a quest that redefines the very limits of the world she inhabits.

Adult readers of books like The Golden Compass, the Hunger Games, and old-school classics like The Dark is Rising and The Chronicles of Prydain will feel right at home with The Locutor Series. Fans of subtler genre fiction by some of literature's greats like Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin), Ursula K Le Guin (The Dispossessed and The Earthsea Cycle), and Kazuo Ishiguro (The Buried Giant and Never Let Me Go) will find traces of their influence in these novels.

The story of The Locutor Series unfolds like this: Lyric holds a special position of leadership in a unique village within the Nine Communities. One night, a stranger commits an act of terrible violence and this sets in motion a series of events that grow increasingly intriguing and otherworldly. When questioned, the stranger describes mysterious new forces that will threaten the laws and customs of the land: a sorcerer who claims to summon a god.

Lyric's surest weapons are her keen intuition, her strict legal code, and the wondrous mind-stones she uses to peer into the thoughts of the people around her. Don't be deceived -- the mind-stones are not magic. Rather, the citizens of her land have spent a century crafting and refining these special stones, and only those who have undertaken years of careful study are able to use them. There are nine of these individuals -- the locutors -- and Lyric is one of the youngest and most powerful locutors the land has even seen.

The Locutor Series reads like a puzzle box within a puzzle box and balances moments of careful character development with tense action sequences. Anchoring the narrative is a nuanced exploration of Lyric's growth, as she charts her own path through challenge, loss, exhilaration, and discovery. You, the reader, will experience alongside her the genre-bending, expectation-defying series of events that raise tough questions about how to be true to oneself while navigating the difficult realities of a rapidly changing world.