Call of the Siren: Chapter Titles, Back Cover Copy, and Cover Art

Good Monday morning!

Here is a glimpse of my latest major fiction project (minor projects are The Adventures of Cornell Dyer, Bertrand the Mouse, and Girls of the BryonySeries books).

This is my latest novel, and it is coming along very slowly but surely, as the saying goes. Part of that reason is because I limit my time to working on it to Friday nights and Saturday, my "fiction writing" habit for many years now.

It is the second book in the new BryonySeries "Limbo" trilogy, and all three books have supernatural themes as well as a theme of "rebirth."

The first book in the series is called The Phoenix, and it is available on Amazon and on the BryonySeries website (print only, free shipping for now).

The third book, in very scant outline status, is called House at the Top of the Hill.

So, for the curious, here is my back cover copy, chapter titles (all chapters are outlined, some are drafted), and cover art, which Nancy Calkins (wife of Ed Calkins, Steward of Tara), created for me a few months ago.

Sue Bass is haunted by dreams of her father, who died in a boating accident before she was born, alluring dreams of water and song. But then a soft-spoken outside man with an inside plan comes to town, and Sue's sleepwalking stops, only to resurface with greater magnetism when he leaves.

Two voices beckon. Which one will she heed?

Prologue

PART ONE: WATER

Chapter 1: Lullaby

Chapter 2: Music or Madness

Chapter 3: Town Mouse

Chapter 4: Country Mouse

Chapter 5: Water, Butter, and Wine

Chapter 6: Little Girl Lost

Chapter 7: The Lure of Their Eyes

PART TWO: FIRE

Chapter 8: Flames and Frost

Chapter 9: Even The Sparrow

Chapter 10: Bewitched By Her Sweetness

Chapter 11: House Calls

Chapter 12: Coin for the Passage

Chapter 13: Plaintive Cries

Chapter 14: As Sharp as Spears

Chapter 15: A Meadow of Skeletons

PART THREE: AIR

Chapter 16: Gates of Horn and Ivory

Chapter 17 Ask, and It Shall be Given You

Chapter 18: Seek, and Ye Shall Find

Chapter 19: Knock, and it Shall Be Opened Unto You

Chapter 20: The Stain No Storm Could Wash Away

Chapter 21: A Stone and a Serpent

Chapter 22: Treading Water

Chapter 23: Last Dream of my Soul

PART FOUR: EARTH

Chapter 24: On Solid Ground

Chapter 25: Ideal – and Worthy of Envy

Chapter 26: Sue’s Diner

Chapter 27: In Dark Depths Lurking

Chapter 28: The Abyss Beckons

Chapter 29: : No Breath of Wind, No Ripple of Water

Chapter 30: Ferry and Scythe

Epilogue