Anna Marshall is a middle-aged music instructor at a university. She is somewhat down on her luck and wishes to be elsewhere. At the same time, a young musician named Daffyd in the magical land of Erde enlists a travel sorceress to summon a powerful sorceress to help him get revenge on the sorcerer who killed his father.
In Erde, magic is created through song. Things do not got quite as Daffyd hoped. Anna discovers her musical talents, including singing, make her powerful but she doesn't know the ways of Erde and how the magic works. She teams up with the sorcerer who killed Daffyd's dad to defend the country of Defalk against the Darksingers of Ebra.
She is successful but the sorcerer dies and she is left to make her way in the political world of Defalk. Her magic gives her power but makes her a target for the Ebrans and threatens the power of those in Defalk. In the end, she has to try to save Defalk and come to terms with her own power.
It has things that could be appealing such as the song magic and it has been referred to as feminist fantasy. However, it lacks too many things for me to recommend it. I wanted more explanation of how the magic worked but didn't get it. Except for the main character, most of the characters aren't well developed. It drags in places and then goes too quickly in others.
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