The Story of Silence

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A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns. Taking the original French legend as his starting point,The Story of Silenceis a rich, multilayered new story for todays world sure to delight fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale.
Utterly enchanting
Publishers Weekly

There was once, long ago, a foolish king who decreed that women should not, and would not, inherit. Thus when a girl-child was born to Lord Cador Merlin-enchanted fighter of dragons and Earl of Cornwall he secreted her away: to be raised a boy so that the family land and honour would remain intact.

That childs name was Silence.

Silence must find their own place in a medieval world that is determined to place the many restrictions of gender and class upon them. With dreams of knighthood and a lonely heart to answer, Silence sets out to define themselves.

Soon their silence will be ended.

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[Myers]prose is utterly enchanting.Fantasy and historical fiction readers will delight in this mythical contribution to Arthuriana.
Publishers Weekly

PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS WORKS BY ALEX MYERS

Remarkable.
New York Times

Author Bio

Alex Myers is a writer, teacher, and speaker. Born and raised in Paris, Maine, Alex was raised as a girl (Alice) and left Maine to attend boarding school at Phillips Exeter Academy. At Exeter, Alex came out as transgender, returning his senior year as a man after attending for three years as a woman, and was the first transgender student in that Academy's history.After Exeter, Alex earned his bachelor's at Harvard University, studying Near Eastern Languages and Civilisations. Alex was also the first openly transgender student at Harvard and worked to change the University's nondiscrimination clause to include gender identity. Subsequent to earning a master's degree in religion at Brown, Alex has pursued a career in teaching, as a transgender advocate, and as an active journalist contributing to the Guardian, THEM and other publications. He currently lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two cats. The Story of Silence is his first book for Voyager.