The Banished of Muirwood

by Jeff Wheeler

Overview

In a world full of magic and mystery, eighteen-year-old Maia is the exiled princess of Comoros and rightful heir to the throne. Forced to live as a servant in her enemy’s home, Maia flees her captors and begins a perilous quest to save her people. To survive, she must use magic she has learned in secret—despite the fact that women are forbidden to control it. Hunted by enemies at every turn, Maia realizes that danger lurks within her, too. Her powers threaten to steal not only her consciousness but also her sense of right and wrong. Can she set herself free and save the realm she loves—even if her people have forgotten her? In bestselling author Jeff Wheeler’s fantasy epic, the answer may be only the beginning to Maia’s journey throughout the mystical land of Muirwood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781503945326
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	08/18/2015
Series:	Covenant of Muirwood , #1
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jeff Wheeler took an early retirement from his career at Intel in 2014 to become a full-time author. He is, most importantly, a husband and father as well as a devout member of his church. He is occasionally spotted roaming hills with oak trees and granite boulders in California or in any number of the state’s majestic redwood groves. The Banished of Muirwood is the first book in his Covenant of Muirwood Trilogy.

Editorial Reviews

06/29/2015
In an introductory note, Wheeler (the Legends of Muirwood trilogy) attributes the origin of this new Muirwood novel to a dream he had about an evil father, his daughter, and her skilled bodyguard, complicated by a wicked twist. His adolescent heroine is a banished and suffering Cinderella and, unknowingly, the villain of the tale, spreading chaos everywhere as she tries to save her realm. Maia, princess of Comoros, was trained secretly in magic. Wheeler alternates episodes of her struggles to reach the kingdom of Naess—where she hopes to become a maston, a priestly vocation forbidden to women, and find the history of the evil Myriad Ones—with nightmare flashbacks to crucial episodes in her past. These dizzying narrative shifts mirror Maia’s struggle with the evil spirit that tries to dominate and destroy her. Wheeler successfully brings his central characters to vivid life, especially Maia’s volatile father, whose sins recall Henry VIII’s divorce of Catherine of Aragon; Maia’s protectors, woodsman Jon Tayt and boarhound Argus; and Feint Collier, the dangerously handsome king of Dahomey. Readers will enjoy the rich descriptions of a created world that Wheeler clearly knows intimately, though series newcomers might have profited from a cast list and a recap of previous installments. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

“Wheeler successfully brings his central characters to vivid life, especially Maia’s volatile father, whose sins recall Henry VIII’s divorce of Catherine of Aragon...Readers will enjoy the rich descriptions of a created world that Wheeler clearly knows intimately.” —Publishers Weekly

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