Crossings — Sarah Johnson

She screamed as she landed on the ground. Zerin fell at her side. A short, red-shafted arrow with yellow fletching impaled his ribs. He groaned. Blood flowed through his shirt around the arrow shaft.

Eliinka, a young, orphaned harp player, was born with the gift of influencing people around her with her music. But in her home country of Pelto, she's forced to hide this ability to avoid persecution from government authorities. When she unwittingly contracts herself to Queen Jereni, the queen of the neighboring country with whom Pelto has been at war, she soon finds herself trying to reconcile the two countries. Can Eliinka use her musical gift to bring peace to Pelto and Viru while protecting the people she loves?