The Old Band - Dennis Santaniello

The music stopped years ago. Now, a witch and her cat have thirty days to bring it back.

Marisol and her cynical cat, Tibby, are pulled to a foggy port city with a cryptic mission: "ENSURE THEY PLAY AGAIN." A legendary fifty-animal ensemble has been silent for decades, their harmony shattered by ego and tragedy.

To succeed, Marisol must track down six stubborn founders-half living, half dead-including an owl who traded her saxophone for a ledger, a moose afraid of his destructive antlers, and a ghost snake performing for empty chairs.

As Marisol drains her magical wells to give the ghosts their resonance back, she realizes the true stakes: a young horse named Jocelyn has never heard the music that once defined her father.

With her shelf of souvenirs full and the countdown on her assignment letter finally holding steady at One, Marisol is facing the beginning of the end. Experience the penultimate chapter of the Moon Over Marisol series-a story about the architecture of silence and the magic of playing together