The Wheel that Turns the Stars

By Ross McDonald

'This moment will never come again, Jason. You know that.' -Vincent

When his brother leaves home to enlist as a midshipman, Jason Hood is resigned to an ordinary life in the small coastal town of Fairhope. Then, wandering alone in the dead of night, he sights a fearsome creature in the waters that will challenge everything he holds to be true.

Vincent Griffin is a promethean with an unknown past, yellow eyes and the rare ability to shape fire. In dreams he has glimpsed a terrifying battle at sea, and believes that he is fated to die on his eighteenth birthday unless he undertakes a great journey in search of the mythical Phoenix.

Sarah Mitchell is Jason's childhood friend, lately awakened to a secret power that will lead her to confront mortal danger time and again.

They set out together in search of the distant desert kingdom of Sapphir. But this is only the beginning of a voyage of exploration and adventure that will take them halfway around the world and beyond, from the smugglers' coast of Highland to a high citadel above the fjords and mountains of Storvik to intrigue and betrayal amid the grand palaces and glittering canals of Heneth.

Drawing inspiration from the history of our own world at the dawn of the nineteenth century, The Wheel that Turns the Stars is the first volume of Memories of the Anunnaki, an epic fantasy trilogy set in an age of sail, muskets and Enlightenment.

As he stepped out of the courtyard Jason was struck by sudden apprehension, as though the full adventure and majesty and beauty and horror of what now lay ahead had been revealed to him for just a fleeting instant, leaving only the memory; and then even that seemed to vanish into the space between heartbeats. In his darker moments in the weeks and months that were to come he would discover many causes for regret, but this would always be the first, the foundation upon which all the others rested like grains of sand gathering in the base of an inverted hourglass. And yet always he would reject any notion of fate, accepting his mistake as his own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08JRGP7JY
• ISBN13: 9798689755878
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 596 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"