Summer of Crows

Ten years after losing her love at the Battle of Drak-Anor, the sorceress Tasha has settled into a new life in the sleepy town of Curton. Once a prosperous mining community and home to a legendary witch, Curton's glory days are long past. The mines dried up and the Crow Queen vanished over a generation ago, leaving nothing for Curton but agriculture and clay for pottery. The slow pace of selling herbs from her apothecary seemed boring to some, but it suited Tasha fine. Then the disappearances started. Tracking the abductors to an abandoned mine, Tasha and her friend, Knight-Captain Lady Aveline, discover a greater threat to Curton. While Aveline musters their allies, Tasha struggles to discover the secrets of the Crow Queen before those who seek to harness the destructive powers of chaos unleashed by Calliome's sundering in ages past destroy them all. Summer of Crows is a standalone novel set in the World of Calliome by award-winning author Hans Cummings.