William Nicholson

Led by their prophetess mother, twins Bowman and Kestrel travel with the Manth people to their promised land, struggling along the way Bowman with desire, and Kestrel with the troubling realization that she cannot foresee life beyond this journey. 

August 1881: Mabel Todd, arrives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband, but falls passionately in love with Austin Dickinson, a married man with three children. October 2013: Alice Dickinson is researching a screenplay on a story that has fascinated since her love of Emily Dickinson's poems began. The story is the illicit love affair between Austin Dickinson and Mabel Todd.

Every time I touch the future I grow weaker. My gift is my disease. I shall die of prophecy.

Five years have passed. The city of Aramanth has become kinder - weaker.

When the ruthless soldiers of the Mastery strike, the city is burned, and the Manth people are taken into slavery. Kestrel Hath is left behind, separated from her beloved brother Bowman, and vowing revenge.

Now Kestrel must find Bowman again, and Bowman mus learn the secrets of the Singer people. Only then will they break the power of the Mastery.

An alienated young man decides to go hitchhiking around Europe, just to get his family off his back, only to find himself caught up in a confusing, threatening, and surreal world of inexplicable violence and dark secrets. X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.

The city of Aramanth, where everyone is judged by how well they perform in exams, is in the grip of the evil Morah. When twins Kestrel and Bowman rebel, with disastrous consequences for the whole family, they set off to find the Wind Singer, an ancient musical instrument that will overcome the evil.