Tristan is a traveling minstrel with a habit of vanishing before dawn — and a secret he's carried since he was sixteen. When a commission to track down an ancient carved stone draws him in with a scholar, a soldier, and a man whose face you'd forget while still looking at it, the road leads somewhere older and stranger than any of them expected, changing the trajectory of their lives.The Minstrel's Shadow is the first book in the Dark Bard series.

Eight months after the commission disbanded, Tristan is back on the road when a strange song arrives whole. Sung the firs time, it pulls words from an old man in a language neither knows. Cairns lead him on. Elara stays one step ahead of the bounty hunters. Silas watches from a distance. Vesper rebuilds a ceremony. Every road ends at a festival ground, where Tristan must sing.The Warden's Lament is the Second book in the Dark Bard series.