"Beautiful, lyrical, and a story that stays with you long after you've finished reading."

Naheli will die in seven days.

After twenty-one years of devotion, it is now time for her to become the Sacrifice of the ocean goddess.

Naheli doesn't mind much. Her mind-controlling people have wiped her memory so clean that she can't recall what it was like to laugh, to cry.

Or to love.

But seven days before her death, Naheli receives a letter that changes everything - because Leykhan, the one who sent it, died years ago.

Or did he?

Leykhan's memory awakens forbidden feelings - Naheli begins to remember joy, grief, even her own forgotten yearning.

But her time is running out.

With the Sacrifice only days away, Naheli sets out to solve the mystery of the letter - and discovers that most of her life has been a lie, and there is a lot more at stake than her own survival.

Naheli's Sacrifice is a stand-alone fantasy novel. It's for you if you love deeply emotional, character-driven fantasy that carries you to a trembling, inevitable ending you won't forget for a long time.

For readers of The Midnight Library, Never Let Me Go, the Mistborn series or The Time-Traveler's Wife.

---Reviewers say:

"... contains so much of the human condition and conflict that I haven't quit thinking about it."

"If you don't have a tear in your eyes by the end I'll be very surprised."

"This isn't a light-hearted book. It takes you into great depths and twists your feelings, making your heart bleed repeatedly. It is also full of twists and surprises, revealing its great secret only at the very end."

"I am left in awe of Scholz's descriptive power."

"a mature love story"

"Scholz's writing was so living and real and 'felt' onto the page."

"There is nothing about this book that is predictable. It had me guessing to the very end."

"If you love brilliant, complex fantasy that will leave you thinking long after you lay it down, this is the book for you. I think readers who enjoy Bujold, Sanderson, Aaron, Nix, and the other great fantasy world-builders will truly enjoy this book."

"Parts of the story had me in tears. It was a pleasure to enter Naheli's world."

"... plenty of twists and turns and this story kept me engaged enough to read it all in one sitting."

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• Teen & Young AdultScience Fiction & FantasyFantasyComing of Age
• Science Fiction & FantasyFantasyEpic
• Science Fiction & FantasyFantasyMetaphysical & Visionary

• Publication Date: September 15, 2016
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• Print Length: 308 Pages
• File Size: 53 KB