The Day the Whimsy Died

The music is dying. And the silence is a killer.

It's been three months since Dekker Kohl, Trovatore for the Columbus Conservatory, wrote a note worth keeping. He calls it a dry spell. He doesn't yet know it's a symptom of something much more lethal.

The signs are everywhere:

• singers losing their pitch mid-phrase,
• composers staring at pages that won't fill,
• jazz clubs locked in a minor key they can't escape.

Something is draining the city of its creative soul, and it's leaving bodies in its wake. When a fellow musician is found strangled with a violin string, Dekker is the only one who can hear the harmonic echoes left at the scene.

But the investigation pulls him into a conspiracy older and stranger than murder: the systematic destruction of Whimsy itself.

With a six-legged witness as his only lead and his own magic failing, Dekker must decode a final, impossible composition before the music stops for good. Because the world won't end without Whimsy. It'll just stop being worth living in.

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The Day the Whimsy Died is available in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook.

Cover Design: The instrument on the cover is the ossia—Dekker Kohl's personal attunement instrument, a hybrid built for a trovatore who never quite fit standard Conservatory issue..