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. But I’m so grateful I did it and especially grateful for my publisher always encouraging me to take risks. The abbeys, the landscape, the people, it all just feels like we are transported in time rather than transported into another world. It’s so exciting to see some of these places that I’ve seen previously, but this time, to see how they started.

All she must do is gain Mordaunt’s confidence and trust and persuade the apostate to divulge his secret to her.

I could not have foreseen then how many people would come to love this world, nor did I imagine I’d still be publishing in it this year. We finished our work long ago,” said Llewellyn—the shortest of the four—while puffing out his chest. We broke for lunch to a nearby café, and I sat alone at a table, thinking about what Terry had said and pondered what to do about it. There are slight references to Kingfountain with Wizrs and interestingly also the mention of Harbingers which is another great series by this author so when you read this and get hooked you will have great books available to deliver further into where this series may be going.

A vacation in Cozumel sounds like the perfect escape, but for Jonathan Roth and his family, it’s a trap. 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. Wheelers word-building is just right and he totally lives up to his name as one of the greats as a Fantasy author.A foundling raised in an abbey, she was entrusted by its imprisoned druid, Mordaunt, with an ancient tome. And now that I've read some other author's books that don't have maps, I thank him profusely for having maps. This book is actually a prequel as it takes place before the Abbey is built so it’s a great place to begin. I really enjoyed Jeff Wheeler's "Kingfountain" series, which was based on the latter years of the Plantegenet rulers of England in the fifteenth century, and was excited to discover that there are more books in the series (and more coming!