He had ambition—a feeling Eilean recognized in herself, although she didn’t like to speak of it for fear of being laughed at. Sharon would visit California occasionally for book tours and conferences and Gina and I ended up having dinner with her several times. Publishers Weekly "Action and intrigue are Wheeler's bread and butter, as are stories with the core value of virtue without ambiguity and gratuitous violence, all on display here.

Instead, the third act includes a minor quest, a minor victory and sets the stage for the next book.But when Eileen is assigned to the Archmaston's new Abbey and is given a special assignment, she may learn she holds more power than anyone ever expected. One of my earliest readers was a girl named Nicole who saw me proof-reading a chapter one day and asked me about it. The door opened, and another cloaked warrior stood blocking the way, hand on the hilt of his gladius.

Eilean is a wretched living in Tintern Abbey when the Aldermaston informs her that she will be leaving to help build a new Abbey at Muirwood. While working with my Chinese publisher, I had hoped to launch this series simultaneously in Chinese and English, but world events made that impossible. I enjoyed Eilean's character, she's intelligent and resourceful, and she really cares about the people around her, however, there was just something about her that felt off. We moved when I was little to Silicon Valley and I grew up in the world of computers and hi-tech from my earliest memories.

The only reason I didn't throw this across the room is because it was on my Kindle and not a paper book. There, the Aldermaston himself entrusts her with a special job: she’ll serve the imprisoned druid, Mordaunt, who’s held captive in Moros’s castle, with the goal of befriending him and getting him to reveal the location of an ancient tome. I saw the opinion of a reader who I've agreed with about a few books in the past give it high marks so I thought I'd give it a chance.

Then she’s chosen to assist in establishing the new abbey of Muirwood, now the site of a castle in the swampy Bearden Muir. On April 19, 2012, I received an e-mail from David Pomerico, the new acquisitions editor at 47North. When invasion begins and the world erupts in chaos, Eilean and Hoel find themselves bound by their mutual wills to survive and, against all odds, realize they are not each other’s enemy. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers.Wheeler does a great job of building a strong female lead in Eilean, who is intelligent and resourceful. One of the most curious things about the mastons was their ability to cross from abbey to abbey without horse or wagon.

It's been such a long time since I read the Muirwood series that I feel like I probably should have read it again before I read this. An abandoned child becomes a singular inspiration to the mythology of Muirwood in an epic series by Jeff Wheeler, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Muirwood and Kingfountain novels.The story had potential, but lacked complexity, and was fairly straight forward without any swerves or curves. If you have read the Muirwood books Wheeler wastes no time on explanations so the story moves forward quickly. My friends were recruited to become major characters in the novel, and I would send them a few pages at a time and then ask them to pick how the characters responded to the situations.