num_pages: 1056
description: 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
title: Maia
titlecomplete: Maia
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Fantasy, Erotica, Classics, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Epic Fantasy
ratings_count: 2377
places: Beklan Empire
series: Beklan Empire
publisher: Viking Books UK/Penguin Books Ltd.