To Tune the Beast

<p>WELCOME TO CORUSCAR WHERE MUSIC AND MAGIC INTERTWINE</p><p></p><p>It's 1928 in Coruscar a multi-species nation founded by the Cores colossal crystalline manticores called monsters by their godlike creators but revered by Humanity for their magic-the empathic 'affinity' they can impart to others-and for the captivating music made by their spines. On the eve of the country's Bicentennial the utopia imagined by the Cores has been warped by a tyrannical elite of Humans dedicated to preserving the barrier not only between 'adepts' and 'common-sensors' but between the High Music of the nobility and People's Music. Centuries of careful cultivation of affinity have hardly translated into a society free from oppression.</p><p></p><p>Mica Kalekai a rakish but earnest young aristocrat has chosen two dangerous vocations at this volatile time: an apprentice Tuner of the Beasts and a promoter of the Afterdark-the People's Music she loves. Mica's privilege as a Tuner depends on her renunciation of all emotional attachment but she becomes entangled with the lives of people who will alter the course of Coruscar's history: a singer destined to be a martyr the revolutionaries of The Absent Root and most perilously of all Chalcy Greenglass an irresistible Afterdarker determined to possess at any cost the High Music forbidden to her.</p><p></p><p>Many forces have an interest in the future of Coruscar-dead as well as living. But the rebellion of the Beasts everyone has taken for granted will prove the most transformative of all.</p><p></p><p>TO TUNE THE BEAST the first book in the Coruscar duology is the debut novel by Sun Hesper Jansen author of the poetry and artwork collection <em>Fairy of Disenchantment.</em></p><p></p>