Halcyon

Trained as a killer, Mirin had let herself believe she'd never need her dagger again. Just be what she seemed, a mild-mannered young wife. But when everything is taken from her--the man she loves, the quiet life she's worked for, her child, her very identity--she knows she has to fight for what's hers, with the weapons she knows best: The mysterious power of her music. The aid of the fisher bird, the bird called halcyon, harbinger of her god. And her dagger.The Stormclouds/Harbingers fantasy novels, in chronological order: Stormclouds, the prequel series: Book I, A Gyrfalcon for a King; Book II, The Call of the Shrike; Book III, Stormbird.Harbingers: Book I, Blackbird Rising; Book II, Halcyon; Book III, Firebird; Book IV, Ghost Bird.The Betwixt & Between companion novels: Book I, The Martlet is a Wanderer; Book II, The Nightingale Holds Up the Sky.And now, set in the Stormclouds/Harbingers world: Dark Ones Take It, being the origin story of Caedon and his brother Maeldoi, the Dark Rider.