The Master

This first book in "The Shadow's Reign Octology" series (8 interconnected books)  In an age of fading echoes, the Order of Resonance has long remained passive—tuning harps while a "Hollow Sound" approached. But when a macabre discovery in the Pace Mountains reveals a looming invasion, the era of the philosophers ends. Yancey, a youth with an impossible mastery over the "Perfect Resonance," is no longer a student. He is an engineer of the human spirit, harvesting the unique energies of a new generation to build a living machine of defense. As the relentless Davis marches with thirty thousand Hollowed hearts, Yancey must drain his own life-fluid into a legendary Shield to protect the Citadel. From the recruitment of cynical survivors to the forging of the Five Masters, this is the chronicle of a world being rewritten. In the face of a discordance that seeks to unmake reality, the Order must learn that true harmony is not a state of peace—it is an act of war. The Second Age has begun, and it sounds like a violent birth. "Genuinely intriguing" - R.F. thewriter