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SONG AND SILENCE The Sirens Sing
Paperback
Series: The Blood and Coral Cycle
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: Ga Thompson
Published: Oct 25 2025
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Forty-three years after the war, six guardians remain bound by blood to protect reality itself. Within the abandoned halls of the Academy on the Florida coast, Karen and her companions stand eternal watch against an intelligence that presses ceaselessly against the walls of the world-a vast, mathematical consciousness that once almost unmade existence.
When a sound not of this world-a song built of equations and memory-calls Karen by name, everything begins to fracture. The melody carries impossible harmonics, offering what none of them have known in decades: freedom. But to follow it would mean breaking the six-point geometry that seals the entity away. To resist is to endure forever.
As the song deepens, loyalty and longing collide. Joseph, the mathematician, tries to model the music that speaks to infinity. Alice, the librarian, hears mythic echoes in every verse. Ken invokes ancestral rituals. Helena dissects the chemistry of consciousness. Sam patrols the crumbling grounds, soldier and sentinel both. And Karen-who has loved and lost them all in different ways-must decide whether duty or desire defines her humanity.
Song and Silence continues the mythic-ecological cycle begun in Blood and Coral, blending speculative science, sacred geometry, and timeless yearning. It transforms the Odyssey into a meditation on guardianship, connection, and the limits of human endurance. Through coral, blood, and mathematics, the novel asks what survives when silence becomes the only song left to sing.
For readers of Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler, and Jeff VanderMeer, Song and Silence is both cosmic and intimate-a story of endless vigilance, forbidden love, and the dangerous hope that even eternity might be broken by one clear voice calling home.
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