S.K. Neilson – writer

Eulo Juke’s gambling debts have cost him his weapons, his horses and his pride. He has forty days to pay what he owes the Scabmen soldiers in enchanted kilili silveriron, before they kill his brother.

Young Vernese matriarch Tali Sarsega dreams of breeding world-class horses and breaking free from her dysfunctional family’s demands. She offsets her struggling pastoral estate by smithing and trading kilili to the renegades overseas in Iskarlia. There, she offers Eulo a marriage of convenience, dragging him into an unfamiliar world where women rule politics, society, and commerce.

Tali sings magic out of her hidden kilili tattoo into the prized silveriron weapons – an inheritance the Scabmen will kill for if the kilili itself doesn’t consume her first.

Clueless to Tali’s secret, Eulo juggles the urgency to rescue his brother with a growing attraction to his temporary wife, and the looming threat of his former brothers-in-arms. The Vernese culture relies on wits and diplomacy, but the Scabmen are coming to take the kilili the Iskarlian way: with hard fists and sharp blades.

Singing Down the Sky by SK Neilson will be released in the third quarter of 2025