Bard City Blues

Music, magic, mystery, kissing, drinking, family, and a gelatinous cube.

Gally Chaparral is a highland girl with a dream: move to Lackmore, join the Bardic Guild, and get a gig at a fancy tavern on Symphony Hill.

Unfortunately, becoming a bard isn't so easy. No good tavern will hire a non-Guild musician, her teacher is a jerk, and worst of all, the only job she can find is washing dishes at a bar that seems to have recently been a dungeon.

When Alix, a beautiful but obnoxious postal rider, tricks Gally into auditioning as her tavern's new bard, things start looking up. But Gally's first show is a disaster, and she's only saved when a fight breaks out and the owner accuses Alix of destroying a valuable painting.

Now, to keep the gig, Gally must prove Alix's innocence. But there's more to the mystery than the loss of a painting, and being forced to work with Alix has Gally wondering if this brassy delivery girl is really as bad as she seems...