The Wayfarer Redemption

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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.

Reviews

“This is storytelling at its best, with fast-paced action, gritty realism, powerful characters, magic and romance.” —Romantic Times BookClub Magazine

“Epic storytelling on a par with Terry Goodkind and Robert Jordan.” —Library Journal

About the Author

Sara Douglass was born in Penola, a small farming settlement in the south of Australia, in 1957. She spent her early years chasing (and being chased by) sheep and collecting snakes before her parents transported her to the city of Adelaiden and the more genteel surroundings of Methodist Ladies College. Having graduated, Sara then became a nurse on her parents' urging (it was both feminine and genteel) and spent seventeen years planning and then effecting her escape.

That escape came in the form of a Ph.D. in early modern English history. Sara and nursing finally parted company after a lengthy time of bare tolerance, and she took up a position as senior lecturer in medieval European history at the Bendigo campus of the Victorian University of La Trobe. Finding the departmental politics of academic life as intolerable as the emotional rigors of nursing, Sara needed to find another escape.

This took the form of one of Sara's childhood loves - books and writing. After she spent some years practicing writing novels, HarperCollins Australia picked up one of Sara's novels, BattleAxe (published in North America as The Wayfarer Redemption), the first in the Tencendor series, and chose it as the lead book in their new fantasy line with immediate success. Since 1995 Sara has become Australia's leading fantasy author and one of its top novelists. Her books are now sold around the world.

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Book Details

Imprint: Tor Books

Genre: Fantasy

ISBN: 9781429911504

Page Count: 448

On Sale:

February 24, 2011