The Martlet Is a Wanderer: A fantasy novel of reanimation and quest

Who is Silence?Where did he come from?If he could speak, what would he say?Maybe he's dead.In the dark, in a ship on stormy seas, a young man stumbles out of a mysterious box to search for his identity--and his voice. His quest takes him reeling from one peril to the next, knowing only he has two tasks: to rescue a friend, to find a queen.Book I of the Betwixt & Between fantasy series, a companion to the Stormclouds/Harbingers fantasy novels.In chronological order, the novels are: Stormclouds: A Gyrfalcon for a King, The Call of the Shrike, StormbirdHarbingers: Blackbird Rising, Halcyon, Firebird, Ghost BirdBetwixt & Between: The Martlet is a Wanderer (overlaps with the events of Halcyon) and The Nightingale Holds Up the Sky (overlaps with the events of Halcyon, Firebird, and Ghost Bird--and goes a bit beyond) And now: Dark Ones Take It, the origin story of Caedon and Maeldoi, the Dark Rider.