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The Kingdom That Forgot The Sun

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Summary Long ago, in a land where the sky was said to bleed gold at the break of dawn, the Kingdom of Ithralis made a deal with a dying god. In return for immortality, they gave the Sun away. Now the world is forever trapped under a twilight sky. No one grows old. No one dies. No one ever truly comes alive. Centuries turn into millennia. Love decays into memory. Children never start. The stars grow weary of the sight. At the heart of the silent kingdom is King Vaelor the Undying. He was the first to be offered immortality. He was the first to realize the true cost. But the Sun was not taken from the world. It was imprisoned. And the gods do not forget. This is the tale of a kingdom that was given immortality. It was given something worse. Chapter I : When the Sun Went Silent - The Last Dawn Image -  King Vaelor overlooks Ithralis under a dying red sun as a robed woman kneels beside an hourglass and skulls in ritual. But there was a time when the dawn came like a promise. The priest...

The Third Note On The Piano

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Summary The only things that can rival Elias Vance's brilliance as a concert pianist are his crippling social anxiety and selective mutism. Elias witnesses a cold-blooded corporate assassination in the private Suite 308 just minutes before a career-defining performance of Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit at Vienna's Musikverein. Elias is a witness, but the murderer, a vicious man with a characteristic jagged scar on his left wrist, bets on the pianist's incapacity to speak. Elias discovers that the music itself is his only weapon while he is trapped on stage and the murderer is observing from the fifth row. Elias tries to convey the room number and the identity of the murderer to Inspector Alistair Finch, a detective and music expert, through a series of audacious, mathematically exact deviations from the score, such as a "third note" where only two belong, rhythmic stutters, and spatial leaps. A single incorrect note could mean the difference between life and death...