The Hills of Gold

"Oh," said Kirip, to the robin perched on the staff growing in the Magician's garden. "So that's how it works. Thanks, Dad, that's saved me a shed-load of time." He grinned at the robin, which cocked its head and chirruped defiantly at him. "I know it's your territory. I don't play the music. I just amplify it." The interwoven stories that began in Leaving on the Tide build to a thrilling climax as the old magic meets the new in the turbulent waters of Tayon politics. Without money or political influence, Myo struggles to keep the Shaihen myth alive in Kivor City. Therro, sailing the seas as a wealthy and powerful pirate captain, continues to resist his Shaihen heritage. It falls to the next generation to reawaken the Quest for the Fair Land. But Shehaios seems to be in decline, the influence of its ageing Magician waning and its Chief Holder brought to his deathbed by the infamy of his illegitimate son. When the new Chief Holder tries to heal the rift with his half-brother, chaos ensues, and both the Magician and his heir are drawn deep into the maelstrom. Can the myth of Shehaios, the Fair Land, the Whole Land, the Home of the Free, survive? What the readers say about the Shaihen Heritage series: "...the land of Shehaios is alluring on so many levels... I gradually came to understand the mystique of the Spirit of Shehaios and just what that fully means through the lives of it's inhabitants."