FREE EBOOK: Worlds Unseen

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Quiet, timid, and still haunted by the murder of her childhood guardians, Maggie Sheffield wants peace and healing—not an opportunity to uncover truths so frightening that they threaten to forever unravel the world she thinks she knows. But when a dying friend gives her an ancient scroll that purports to contain just such truths, Maggie finds the lure of understanding too hard to resist:

For the power that killed Maggie’s guardians was not human—and she has reason to believe the same power is controlling the Seventh World.

Leaving her hopes for peace behind, Maggie sets out to carry the ancient scroll to the far eastern city of Pravik, seeking the only man in the world who can read it. Along the way, Maggie falls into the companionship of a charismatic young wanderer called Nicolas Fisher, who has secrets of his own that he has long been trying to keep hidden.

Together, their journey plunges them into a strange new world of colourful Gypsies and ancient legends, of death-hounds and beautiful witches, of wilderness treks, unexpected love, and political rebellion. But the price of truth may be too high: for Maggie, Nicolas, and the rebels of Pravik are tearing at the veil between the seen and the unseen, between good and evil, between forgotten past and treacherous future—and when that veil grows thin enough, it’s anyone’s guess what may come through.

Worlds Unseen is Book 1 of the Seventh World Trilogy.

Review by: Jimmy Patterson on March 16, 2013 : (no rating)
fantasy at its best. pros are great characters and plot, fluent writing and ending. no cons of this fantasy its just pure entertainment.
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Review by: Red Jackson on March 07, 2013 :     
This was a great read. Rachel Starr Thomson is a wonderful story teller.
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Review by: Emerson Johns on Jan. 18, 2013 :     
I've been looking for something of superior quality on this site for quite some time, and have found it. While I'm not a massive fan of the CS Lewis-like religious overtones here, I am an enormous fan of well thought out, compelling and often musical prose. I can find little fault in Worlds Unseen, and I applaud you for it.

What you have here is a masterpiece. Thank you for giving it to me for free.
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Review by: Mark Stewart on June 06, 2011 :     
Worlds Unseen was an excellent read with a great start. Well done.
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Review by: Shelby Mosley on Feb. 21, 2011 :     
I loved it. i recommend it for people to read it. i could hardly put it down....
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Review by: Cat L on Jan. 28, 2011 :     
A really excellent and well thought out and crafted fantasy novel.

A tale of an Empire that oppresses it's people and the revolutionaries that are rising to take it down. It has many likeable and believable characters and there is definitely an air of mysticism about the story.

Included in the tale are magic creatures, mystically gifted people and magic.

I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it highly. I'm going to buy the second two books as soon as I am able.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 
Rachel Starr Thomson is a writer, indie publisher, and editor. She's the author of the Seventh World Trilogy and other novels and short stories.

Rachel is a homeschool graduate, a dweller in southern Canada, a lover of long walks, good books, hot tea, and rich fellowship, and a counter-cultural revolutionary who thinks we'd all be much better off if we pitched our television sets out the nearest window.