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Maia

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Maia is a fifteen-year-old peasant beauty growing up in poverty beside Lake Serrelind. Seduced by her stepfather and betrayed by her jealous mother, Maia finds herself in the hands of slave-traders to be sold as a concubine. She attracts the attention of General Kembri who uses her to obtain information from her admirers and her adventures uncover a plot for civil war. Proclaimed as a heroine, she finds that one sinister result of fame is to have enemies in high places and Maia has to struggle for survival through treachery, cruelty, lost love and a final flight through a wild empire to escape a crumbling regime.

Language: English

Pages: 1056

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Viking Books UK/Penguin Books Ltd.

Release: September 27, 1984

ISBN: 0670800333

ISBN 13: 9780670800339

Maia

4/5 ( ratings)

Maia is a fifteen-year-old peasant beauty growing up in poverty beside Lake Serrelind. Seduced by her stepfather and betrayed by her jealous mother, Maia finds herself in the hands of slave-traders to be sold as a concubine. She attracts the attention of General Kembri who uses her to obtain information from her admirers and her adventures uncover a plot for civil war. Proclaimed as a heroine, she finds that one sinister result of fame is to have enemies in high places and Maia has to struggle for survival through treachery, cruelty, lost love and a final flight through a wild empire to escape a crumbling regime.

Language: English

Pages: 1056

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Viking Books UK/Penguin Books Ltd.

Release: September 27, 1984

ISBN: 0670800333

ISBN 13: 9780670800339

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