NICKI RUNGE

SONGLESS WAR

Mary's world was taken from her piece by piece — her memories, her family, and the language that lives in her hands. In a house that rewrites itself and a mirror that watches back, the Dark Man is patient. He does not need her voice. He needs her silence.But some things cannot be erased. A golden feather. Three keys. Three guardians who have watched over her past, her present, and her future. And a language of light that no darkness has ever managed to still.

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Nicki Runge is the author of the "Songless War" saga, a nine-book dark fantasy series where American Sign Language is not just a voice — it is the magic itself. Through Mary's story, she weaves Deaf identity, memory, and the fight to reclaim what was stolen into a world of guardians, keys, and golden feathers.A lifelong lover of fantasy, Nicki writes from Colorado. She first dreamed up these stories as a teenager — the same years her hearing teachers told her she'd never become an author because she was Deaf and her English “wasn't good enough.” Decades later, she found those old stories again, and in her fifties, decided it was finally time to prove them wrong. "The Shadows of Memory" is her debut novel. She hopes you'll lose yourself in it.