The Harsh Cry of the Heron Audiobook (Free)

Set 15 years after the seismic occasions of Brilliance of the Moon, The Harsh Cry from the Heron can be an elegiac and bittersweet successor towards the bestselling series by Lian Hearn, Stories from the Otori.

Their realm is held in balance by their union . Break that union as well as the Three Countries will fall apart.

Otori Takeo and Kaede possess ruled the Three Countries peacefully for over sixteen years, following the events laid out in the epic Tales of the Otori. They possess three daughters: Shigeko, about The Harsh Cry from the Heron fifteen years of age and heir to the Otori, and Maya and Miki, thirteen-year-old twins who’ve inherited the supernatural abilities of their father. Kaede knows nothing at all of the prophecy that Takeo will pass away at the hands of his kid and longs to give him a man child. Nor does she know of the boy he fathered sixteen years ago – a youngster whose heart is normally filled up with hatred and whose skills as a Ghostmaster give him the energy to incite the lifeless.

Takeo is determined that clan conflicts will never again ravage the Three Countries, but warriors are delivered to combat: the warlord Arai Zenko has deadly ambitions, the Emperor himself provides challenged Takeo’s rule and, despite a sensitive truce between your deadly Tribe as well as the Otori, revenge still eats at the heart of renegade innovator Kikuta Akio . . .

Against these gathering dangers Takeo draws power from his love for Kaede, but actually this is not beyond the reach of their enemies . . .