The Pipes of Orpheus — Jane M. Lindskold

INTO THE FIRES OF HADES

Enthralled by sweet, hypnotic music, the children of Hamelin eagerly followed the enigmatic Pied Piper--unaware that the strange enchanter's song would lead them into slavery, despair...and, ultimately, death.

Leni, Bettina, Willy, Otto and Kurt have survived when so many have not. And they have seen the depraved Piper's true face--the tortured visage of a mythical Greek hero driven mad by grief, treachery and lost love. For it is Orpheus who holds them captive. And the only escape from his vile grasp is a road that winds through Hell itself--where five remarkable children must confront gods, demigods, demons and almost certain doom on their quest to free the living--and the dead.