The Songs of Symerid Three

Book excerpt: How did Laura, a music student from an English village, find herself many light-years from Earth, alone on the stage of a meticulously copied Ancient Greek amphitheatre? This is her story. As she has the only singing voice on the planet Celestra, she isn’t worried about pleasing her audience. What concerns her is the future of the people who randomly chose her: technologically advanced yet disturbingly naïve, with a dwindling population, half-forgotten history, and an ambitious, music-hating First Citizen. No-one's asked Laura to do anything other than sing. No-one expects her to challenge Celestra’s corrupt leadership. But she’s going to.