Fly by Night

Eleanor Knight is spoiled, bored, a stranger to commitment. Then, in another world, a desperate rite of magic sends a summoning, and in a whirling nightmare of hawkflight Eleanor is borne out of her indulgent unhappiness, and into another place.

On a wind-lashed coast of endless twilight the Cavers, worshippers of the Moon Goddess Astret, exist in an endless present where none can be born and none can die. Creativity is dead, relationships barren. The Cavers must despair or fight, defying the Sun God Lycias whose High priest Lefevre maintains the Stasis from Peraldonia, an ocean away and basking in ageless pleasure under the relentless brilliance of the summer skies.

The rite had been the Cavers’ last chance to deal the Stasis a fatal blow; all they achieved was Eleanor who, disoriented and dismayed, wants no part of their problems. But the Moon Goddess will not be denied, and Eleanor sets reluctant foot on her own fated path. A path that will lead her on a dangerous journey southward, beset by the evils of Lefevre’s imagining and by the Sun God’s tempting deceptions. With her go the driven, tempestuous Caver Lukas Marling, the Peraldonian Phinian Blythe, who has lost everything at Lefevre’s hands, and the magnificent, unknowable Arrarat, the sentient hawks who are the Cavers’ only allies in their struggle to end the Stasis. But at the end it is to Eleanor, the outsider, that the final, heart-rending agony of choice will fall.