Lady Raven & The Black Wedding

She killed her mother with a song. Now an ancient evil has come to collect the debt.

Inessa Way has always been different—bone-pale, raven-haired, and possessed of a musical gift so powerful it bends the minds of those who hear it. When grief drives her to sing her suicidal mother to sleep, she doesn't realise the song won't stop. It never stops. And now her mother is dead, and Inessa knows the blood is on her hands.

Orphaned, destitute, and drowning in guilt, Inessa and her twin brother, Isaac, are taken in by their father's oldest friend. But the world Inessa thought she understood is cracking at the seams. Ravens follow her. Visions bleed into reality. And something vast and hungry — something that has been watching her for a very long time — is finally making its move.

When Inessa is swept into a world lurking just beneath the skin of the living one, she discovers that her power is not a sickness to be medicated away. It is a weapon. A legacy. A curse. And the Black Wedding waiting for her at the end of this road will demand everything she has left to give.

Dark, lyrical, and unflinching, this is a song of corrupted magic, fractured family, and the thin line between love and damnation.

A J.J. Mercury novel