Jack’s old nemesis Adaira believes the spirits are taking them and only a bard can save the girls. Jack returns home to discover that young girls are going missing and no one can figure out where they have gone. When Jack is mysteriously summoned back to Cadence by his laird, he has no choice but to go. The story follows Jack Tamerlaine, once a resident of the isle of Cadence, he has left that life behind to become a musician at the university on the mainland. ReviewĪ River Enchanted is the first in an all new fantasy duology from Rebecca Ross, author of The Queen Rising.

He hasn’t stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university, but as Jack and Adaira reluctantly work together it becomes apparent the trouble with the spirits is far more sinister than first thought and an older, darker secret lurks beneath the surface, threatening to undo them all. But there’s only one bard capable of drawing the spirits forth by song: her childhood enemy Jack Tamerlaine. The capricious spirits that live there find mirth in the lives of the humans who call the land home, but that mischief turns to malevolence as girls begin to go missing.Īdaira, heiress of the east, knows the spirits only answer to a bard’s music, enticing them to return the missing girls. Source: The publisher kindly sent me a copy of this book to reviewĮnchantments run deep on the magical Isle of Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawls can be as strong as armour, and the smallest cut of a knife can instill fathomless fear.

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