J E Schoen

The Silence of Snow J E Schoen

Thelan, born to wandering parents and raised without a permanent home, has come of age and chosen to settle down at last. Out of all the towns in the Kingdom of Imenras, she chooses Qantar to be her home, high in distant mountains and snowbound for months each year. From a childhood visit she carries fond memories of its close community, its sense of stillness, and most of all her deep friendship with Timolen. In spite of her best efforts to settle in quietly, her very presence soon upsets the balance of the town, revealing carefully-held secrets and disrupting comfortable compromises. She has no way of knowing that her arrival in Qantar has occurred at precisely the right time. This is the sixth book of the Chronicles of Imenras, following The Silence of Snow.