IN A WORLD where cities sprawl like half-submerged skeletons, Maia has spent her entire life hidden within the mountains of New Zealand. Her only companions being her ailing grandfather and a nomadic dog named Huck, Maia resents being alone. She spends her days wandering the ruins of a population long-gone, dreaming of a place where the few humans left behind can start again - a place her grandfather insists is a myth.
But Maia cannot escape a strong and mysterious force calling her out into the world, as well as bizarre events following her around the island. There is something strangely enchanted about the land in which she lives … or is it her?
When Maia hears a rumor that people are heading to The Old Arctic Circle half a world away, she knows this is where her destiny lies - until a devastating turn of events seems to shatter any hope of reaching her destination. Clinging to the edge of her life, Maia must come face to face with the transformative power of fate, discovering the one thing she has spent her life running from may be the only thing to save her.
The first book in The Forgotten Ones trilogy, The Weight of a Thousand Oceans is one woman’s haunting story about the astonishing, sometimes heart-wrenching perseverance of the human spirit across a deeply forsaken planet.
But Maia cannot escape a strong and mysterious force calling her out into the world, as well as bizarre events following her around the island. There is something strangely enchanted about the land in which she lives … or is it her?
When Maia hears a rumor that people are heading to The Old Arctic Circle half a world away, she knows this is where her destiny lies - until a devastating turn of events seems to shatter any hope of reaching her destination. Clinging to the edge of her life, Maia must come face to face with the transformative power of fate, discovering the one thing she has spent her life running from may be the only thing to save her.
The first book in The Forgotten Ones trilogy, The Weight of a Thousand Oceans is one woman’s haunting story about the astonishing, sometimes heart-wrenching perseverance of the human spirit across a deeply forsaken planet.
"Haunting, eerie, and beautiful."
"I couldn't put it down."
"A book so moving, it stays with you long after the last page..."
"Intriguing, heartfelt, and full of suspense. I couldn’t read it fast enough..."
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Special Sneak-Peek! Prologue of The Weight of a Thousand Oceans."It’s happening again.
Her nightmares have been occurring more and more. No matter how hard Maia tries, she can’t seem to escape them. They chase her into the deepest recesses of her mind, smashing through locked doors and hidden rooms, mercilessly dragging out everything she’s fought her entire life to forget. She recognizes this wild and foreboding forest trail where she now stands—knows every detail of it with every cell of her being. She’s familiar with every green vein of each fluttering leaf, and every knotted and twisted branch snaking deep across the path. She’s walked this passageway thousands of times throughout her twenty years of life. Each night, when it greets her in her dreams, she knows her mother will be waiting for her on the other side. And she knows what she’ll be expecting." |
About the AuthorJillian Webster is the author of Scared to Life, The Weight of a Thousand Oceans, and has also written for Access Magazine. She has spent the last thirteen years working as a dental hygienist in both the United States and New Zealand. Originally from Michigan, Jillian now lives in New Zealand with her husband and dog, a collie-mix named Biggie.
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