The Wayfarer Redemption
Book One
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Publisher Description
An ancient prophecy, a forbidden love, and a heroic journey to uncover the truth that will change everything...
A millennia-old prophecy was given when the Forbidden Ones were driven from Achar. Now, the Acharites witness its terrifying manifestation: Achar is under attack by Gorgreal, an evil lord from the North, whose ice demons strike from the sky and kill hundreds of brave warriors in the blink of an eye.
Amidst the chaos, Faraday, betrothed of Duke Borneheld, learns that all she has been told about her people's history is untrue. As she flees to safety from the dangerous land, Faraday rides with Axis, the legendary leader of the Axe-Wielders—and the hated half-brother of Borneheld—a man Faraday secretly loves, though it would be death to admit it. She embarks on a journey that will change her life forever, in search of the true nature of her people.
In this grand and heroic story, one woman fights against oppressive forces to uncover the truth and change the hearts and minds of her people forever. She will not desist until everyone knows the reality of the Star Gate.
Wayfarer Redemption is an epic tale of high fantasy, prophecy, forbidden romance, and magic battles in a frozen world. From award-winning Australian author Sara Douglass comes a sweeping fantasy series of good versus evil and a heroic quest that will keep you spellbound until the very end.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Setting her first American-published fantasy in a world where mankind reveres the plough and the axe and fears the forest, talented Australian Douglass delivers an initially beguiling story of human struggle to put aside its age-old enmity for two other races and join in battle against a deadly invasion. Axis the BattleAxe, bastard nephew of the king and leader of the Axe-Wielders, marches his crack troops north to help his despised half brother and the king's heir to repel winter-strengthened wraiths poised to decimate the land. A prophecy unearthed in a monastery explodes Axis's beliefs about man's ancient battle against the Forbidden--two hated races driven into exile, both of whom, according to the prophecy, must ally with man to defeat the wraiths. Axis's own part in the prophecy, as well as that of his half brother's betrothed, grows clearer with every stride closer to the northern menace. Invoking most of a conventional epic's elements, Douglass sets her hero on a path that reveals his hidden parentage and key role in the reuniting of the three races. Strongest at the beginning while exploring the plough-based traditions of man and its fear of the Forbidden races, this first volume soon loses dramatic tension: the prophecy is so straightforward that the continuing books will play connect-the-dots unless Douglass introduces twists to lift her orthodox, well-written series up to originality.
