The Canticle Prelude

by Michael Young

Rating: 5.0/5 (2 votes cast)

Dark fairytales do not always have happy endings.

This series has come to an end, but you can purchase the compilation in our Store now, and check out the author’s other series, Age of Archangels.

I: Canticle of Night
II: Canticle of Dawn
III: Canticle of Twilight

Canticle of Night

At the height of WWI, brothers Jorgen and Karsten both long to fight for the German army, but Jorgen’s frailty keeps him from battle. Distraught, he tries to turn to his music, to his piano, but even that proves not enough. Escaping into the woods, he follows a beautiful woman to a cabin. The cabin holds a darker music that will soon lure Jorgen to succumb to its power.

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Canticle of Dawn

Many years after the rule of Minna in the Canticle Kingdom within the music box, the current queen longs to be as beautiful as her predecessors. Desperate for any magic that might help her attain beauty, a stranger offers the queen hope, but may prove to harbor darker secrets of his own.

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Canticle of Twilight

Karsten and the knights of the Canticle Kingdom have kept vigil for Jorgen’s return for many years, either as the sorcerer Thantos or any other guise, but Jorgen has already infiltrated the castle and plots a new kind of revenge upon the kingdom. With a new queen in peril, and the kingdom soon split, the knights face greater evils than ever before and can only hope that they succeed and that one day the kingdom faces a better future.

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Narrated by Michael Young:
This series is narrated by the author. At BigWorldNetwork.com, Michael authored The Canticle Prelude, Age of Archangels, and The Last Time. He narrates all of his own work, as well as The Adventures of Phineas Frakture.