Picking the Ballad's Bones

by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Overview

The ancient ballads of England, Scotland and Ireland are great stories to visit but nobody in their right mind would want to live there. There's a high body count for every ballad and a happy ending usually involves boy meets girl and they end up sharing a grave. The musicians who go to retrieve the songs, with the help of the magic banjo, Lazarus, know this, but the fact is, the songs also contain a great deal of magic useful in defeating the devils who are out to dehumanize humanity by stealing the music. The Queen of the Fairies, aka the Debauchery Demon, Torchy Burns, makes them a deal they can't refuse and the reluctant heroes find themselves thrust into the lives and deaths of ballad people they know are going to end badly. It's enough to make a picker take up accounting!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452474045
Publisher:	Gypsy Shadow Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2010
Series:	The Songkiller Saga , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	584 KB

About the Author

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is the author of 22 solo fantasy and science fiction novels, including the 1989 Nebula award winning fantasy novel, Healer’s War, loosely based on her service as an Army Nurse in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. She has collaborated thus far on 16 novels with Anne McCaffrey, six in the best selling Petaybee series and eight in the YA bestselling Acorna series, and most recently, the Tales of the Barque Cat series, Catalyst and coming in December 2010, Catacombs (from Del Rey). Her last published solo novel was CLEOPATRA 7.2, soon to be re-released for e-Book download and print on demand under the Fortune imprint of Gypsy Shadow Publishing. She is currently working on a YA fantasy cat mystery, SPAM VS THE VAMPIRE. Website: