Hidden deep inside a crystal-filled cavern, a luminescent creature known as the Guardian waits for its kin to come home.

      Nearly a hundred and fifty years have passed since Avarian dragons were forced out of their ancestral homeland by the High Council so humans could freely mine their energy crystals.

      Tevia, an empath and musician, is returning home to her mountain village, Arrowrock, after a painful breakup and being away for many years. She yearns to continue to study magery with Songmage Annados, her childhood mentor, but worries he will now not find her worthy.

    Yet before her training can begin, a raving, dying stranger in Dragons Landing Inn succumbs to a strange illness. In his last moments he chokes out that he saw a dragon flying over his burning home, compelling Tevia and Annados to discover if this is true. When they search Dragons Peak for evidence of a potential return of the creatures, they uncover a startling mystery that only serves to deepen the puzzle of what the dragons had once meant to Avar.

     Now Tevia’s secret hope is to enter the Song Trials in the Citie of Towers and be one of the few chosen to train as a songmage, determined to bring the legendary winged beings back to Avar.  

     And become the future Dragon Ambassador.

     But in order to compete at the Trials using her emerging image-casting skill, Tevia must face her doubts and fears both about her ability to use the Flow to help others heal and her capacity to love again.

     Filled with a unique magical system, original songs, and woven with a vivid, sensory landscape for the vicarious, adventure-seeking reader, Song of the Mage, first in the Song Mage series, will entice and captivate fantasy bibliophiles looking for characters with emotional complexity and a wonderfully layered plot similar to what fans of Julliet Marillier and Naomi Novik enjoy.