The Carillon LIps - ATTUNEMENT

The Carillon Lips — Volume II: Attunement

By Vienna Leary

Peace has returned to Bixiu. Order is another matter.

A shopping expedition should produce tea, medicinal herbs and writing paper. With Qiao Huan involved, it also produces carved rabbits, sweets and a decorative duck that soon becomes everyone’s problem.

Qiao Huan and Cangyi Heng have shared decades of danger, devotion and ordinary life. Their younger companions are still trying to understand them. Exchanged robes, misplaced ribbons and the quiet ease of their affection do little to help.

When an investigation into wandering ducks leads a curious student into Bixiu’s archives, harmless questions begin to uncover a more complicated history. Records have been copied, memories differ, and the people who survived the war carry stories that no ledger can fully explain.

Around them, a younger generation begins to take responsibility for the household they will inherit. Learning to care for it means noticing who is struggling, knowing when to ask—and recognising when someone’s silence deserves privacy.

Warm, mischievous and quietly moving, Attunement continues the story of love between men, enduring friendship and chosen family. Beneath the comedy lies a community learning how to honour its past while making room for lives still unfolding.

Includes “After the Bells” and “The Work Between the Silences.”

The second volume of The Carillon Lips, continuing from Tympany. Also available as part of the complete seven-volume collection.

Digital edition: one EPUB file. No physical book will be posted.