A Piper at the Gates

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Twisting tumbling through the endless black the boy pursed his lips and with his last breath he whistled.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- from </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Piper at the Gates</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A song is haunting the children of starship Hamelin.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>They hear it everywhere-in their VR chambers in their dreams even through the locked doors of their family cabins. The melody calls to them. Beckons them. Especially Jack and Lucy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lucy lives under the eye of her military mother dreaming of escape. Jack builds strange instruments out of salvaged code and sorrow. Neither of them knows who The Piper is... but both know they're being called.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As the Fleet drifts through deep space-fleeing a dying Earth bound for a planet they'll never live to see-Jack and Lucy begin to unravel the mystery behind the song. What they discover will tear their lives apart... and offer a chance to become something more than the system ever allowed.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Piper at the Gates</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a lyrical sci-fi coming-of-age novel about love rebellion and the music that frees us.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For readers who love...</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Lyrical speculative fiction exploring grief identity and imagination</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Stories like </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Monster Calls</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Ocean at the End of the Lane</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lanny</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Quiet revolutionaries mythic echoes and the haunted edges of technology</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Aboard the starship Hamelin families live isolated lives policed by strict hierarchy and digital illusion. Children study in immersive VR chambers cut off from their parents and each other. But something has slipped through the system: a song ancient and impossible leaking through code and memory.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Told through dual perspectives and set against a backdrop of interstellar exile </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Piper at the Gates</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> blends sci-fi surrealism and psychological realism in the first novel of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Children of Hamelin</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> trilogy.</span></p><p></p>