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The Void of Muirwood (Covenant of Muirwood #3) Author: Jeff Wheeler Genre: YA, Fantasy Publisher: 47North Release Date: 2015 Pages: 432 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: When banished Princess Maia is captured by her father and threatened with execution, it appears that all is lost…until the people rise in rebellion against their king. Suddenly, the cast-aside royal finds herself crowned the first Queen of Comoros. But enemies appear on all sides as her father’s conniving supporters assemble a new army against the fledgling ruler. While Maia struggles to keep the peace within her own walls, she rushes to form historical alliances with her neighboring kingdoms against an impending invasion of the ruthless Naestors—led by the cruel Corriveaux—who will destroy anyone Maia loves in order to ruin her kingdom and prevent the mastons from regaining power.      Realizing that Muirwood Abbey is once again her only hope for survival, M...

The Ciphers of Muirwood (Covenant of Muirwood #2) Author: Jeff Wheeler Genre: YA, Fantasy Publisher: 47North Release Date: 2015 Pages: 400 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: From the moment she was banished by her father, the king, Princess Maia journeyed to seek sanctuary at Muirwood Abbey, the epicenter of magic and good in the land. Now safe for the first time since her cruel abandonment, Maia must foster uneasy friendships with other girls training to be Ciphers: women who learn to read and engrave tomes of ancient power, despite the laws forbidding them to do so. As Maia tries to judge whom to trust, she makes a shocking discovery: her destiny is to open the Apse Veil and release trapped spirits from her world. Then she learns that her father is coming to Muirwood Abbey to celebrate the Whitsunday festival—and Maia’s estranged husband, whom she was forced to abandon, will join him. Torn between deadly political machinations and unstop...

The Banished of Muirwood (Covenant of Muirwood #1) Author: Jeff Wheeler Genre: YA, Fantasy Publisher: 47North Release Date: August 18, 2015 Pages: 357 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: 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 ...