Fire Mountain Aria
Strains of Portomare Book One
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A disillusioned eldsinger. A freezing world. A desperate search for home.
After losing their family in an accident some think they caused, powerful eldsingers Trace and Echo are adrift, moving through the ocean from job to job waiting for better days. Echo can’t seem to reach her brother Trace, the most powerful eldsinger on Portomare, and watching him sink and lose hope is killing her.
When a small reef, a community living within a hollow stone far beneath the surface of the ocean, asks for their help, they discover a mystery, and Trace finally shows some interest in life again. However, with this mystery comes danger, as Trace accidentally catapults himself into a hidden world and can’t get himself out.
Those in the lost reef have never met anyone from the outside before. Their reef is dying, freezing, and they have no hope save an injured eldsinger. Time is running out for the reef, and unless Trace can find answers and get himself home, two reefs—and Trace himself—might be lost forever.
Fire Mountain Aria is book one of the Strains of Portomare, fantasy about an underwater world and the powerful men and women who travel its currents.
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Jill's Notes
- Much younger me wrote, by hand, dozens of pages of tales about Trace O’Dell’s ancestor, Jake O’Dell. They were over-the-top dramatic, not organized or well written, and hugely fun. I’m excited to revisit that world, years later, and make it into a story worth sharing.
- However, it makes me a little sad, too, because Jake O’Dell is 150 years in the past, and I miss him. Writing is strange.
- The image of the little animal is a pipperung. I had fun creating him, and I have big plans for his species in the book.
- If you find yourself on this page and you have questions about this series and the world of Portomare, head back to the series page, which has an FAQ section at the bottom.
- Because I created this world so long ago, I’m pretty comfortable with its geography, history, and magic system, which isn’t really magic, just different physics from our world.