Margaret Ball: No Earthly Sunne
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Music can bridge the Worlds...
(This is not necessarily a good thing...)
Long ago, in an English country mansion next to a deep, dark wood, Wicked Kit Arundel devised a masque, a musical "entertainment" to be performed on the eve of Midsummer's Night, 1594. It was supposed to be a quest for the perfect music, a mystic bridge to ultimate knowledge. What actually crossed the bridge was the Queen of Faerie. She took Kit back to Faerie with her, leaving his true love Eleanor to die of grief. In 1994 Ellen Ainsley is a master programmer, an erstwhile musician, and a very confused woman. After collapsing in the middle of an important recital, Ellen gave up her plans for a career singing early music, even gave up music altogether - it made her dizzy, made her lose contact with the real world around her, made her feel like a different person in a different century... A strange young man who is extremely reticent about his background manipulates Ellen into singing once more, in a re-enactment of the masque of Wicked Kit Arundel. Every four hundred years the spheres of Earth and Faerie draw close together... and this time Ellen, not Kit, will have to choose between knowledge and love, reality or the timeless mists of Faerie. |
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