The Fair and Fey Series by J. Ellyne

An exotic young princess from a faraway world comes of age and experiences extreme dangers, passionate love, and loyal friendships in this first of three books about her life and struggles. Her mother, the queen has established a small colony on an island in the narrows between three great lakes. She and her people have worked hard to establish a civilization far beyond anything the natives of the region can imagine, thousands of years before such things will exist in their world... moreAn exotic young princess from a faraway world comes of age and experiences extreme dangers, passionate love, and loyal friendships in this first of three books about her life and struggles. Her mother, the queen has established a small colony on an island in the narrows between three great lakes. She and her people have worked hard to establish a civilization far beyond anything the natives of the region can imagine, thousands of years before such things will exist in their world. The relationships they form with the natives are sometimes friendly, sometimes hostile, and sometimes loving and passionate. She is forced to grow into maturity fast as she becomes immersed with her people in a struggle for life and freedom. During her adventures she finds and experiences a love different from any she ever imagined and also deeper than any love most people experience. The contrasts between good times and bad are sudden and stark. She has inherited her beauty, strength and wisdom from her mother who is a strong and brave woman fighting fiercely to keep her people safe despite the hardships they have to endure in a harsh world they are not prepared to cope with. Friendly natives join forces with them and the two cultures try to merge in order to fend off common enemies. This is a tale of adventure, suspense, and passion, set in a long ago time. Is it a fantasy or is it history, passed down over eons to become part of today’s mythology? less

In the first book, Sashegh was a young girl just coming of age and experiencing for the first time extreme dangers, passionate love, and loyal friendships. Her adventures seemed to happen around her, affecting her without directly involving her. In Maahilund, she is the central protagonist, having matured into a wise and brave woman who takes charge of her life and demonstrates great leadership abilities... moreIn the first book, Sashegh was a young girl just coming of age and experiencing for the first time extreme dangers, passionate love, and loyal friendships. Her adventures seemed to happen around her, affecting her without directly involving her. In Maahilund, she is the central protagonist, having matured into a wise and brave woman who takes charge of her life and demonstrates great leadership abilities.Her mother finds a small uninhabited island off the southern coast of a far northern country which might be in the area called Finland today. They settle there and build a castle to live in. The mainland is not uninhabited however. On Maginaugh they had to deal with natives of primitive cultures, some friendly, and some hostile. In the area around and inside Maahilund they will discover there are Gnomes, Elves, and Demons.Sashegh meets a wizard who has the ability to turn her and all her people into Elves. He teaches them how to cast magical spells. Sashegh reminds him of his mother and so he favors her, making her most powerful of all the Elves.Another group of Elves live on the mainland in an underground city named Maahilund. Sashegh meets one of them in the forest one night and they become best friends. Sashegh feels drawn to her, thinking the girl might be her lover from Maginaugh, Nammi reincarnated, seeing many physical similarities. She wishes they could be more than friends.Sashegh learns of her destiny from the wizard. She must lead the Elves in epic battles with the Demons and other evil beings. She must face the Devil himself in an ultimate struggle between good and evil. By reading the Fair and Fey series you will learn the origins of the Elves and hear of their destiny. Where do they fit in the evolutionary chain of sentient beings? Why are they so seldom seen today?Elves are sometimes referred to in literature as the Fair Folk. Other times they are called the Fey. From these terms the word Fairy evolved. Hence the title for the series: The Fair and Fey. In fact, the Elves of Maahilund are both Fair (beautiful) and Fey (having a grim destiny).Laced throughout these adventures are lovely, happy, and romantic moments when your favorite characters are enjoying life to the fullest. Maahilund will inspire you to do the same and fight for that which is good in your life. less

This is the riveting third book of the blockbuster series, The Fair and Fey, translated from the High Elven of Sashegh’s third journal by J. Ellyne. The series began 9,000 years ago when Sashegh and her people came from the planet Mag to settle on an island in our world. They endured conflicts with savage natives and Sashegh came of age, finding love with both men and women. One in particular, a young native Maiden named Nammi, was her true love... moreThis is the riveting third book of the blockbuster series, The Fair and Fey, translated from the High Elven of Sashegh’s third journal by J. Ellyne. The series began 9,000 years ago when Sashegh and her people came from the planet Mag to settle on an island in our world. They endured conflicts with savage natives and Sashegh came of age, finding love with both men and women. One in particular, a young native Maiden named Nammi, was her true love. Circumstances forced her to leave Nammi behind when Sashegh’s mother decided to take her, along with several other friends and family, on a sailboat of Magin design to the North Country land across the ocean.The Magin lead long lives so Sashegh outlived Nammi by many years. In the second book Nammi was reincarnated as Alikki, an Elf of Maahilund in the North Country, and they were reunited. They became best friends but in her second life Alikki, unlike Nammi, was strictly heterosexual. A wizard named Vainamoinen meets Sashegh and turns her and the other Magin into Elves. They join with the Elves of Maahilund and together they battle demons and the Devil who are determined to exterminate them.You may have been saddened by the death of Sashegh at the hands of the Devil in the ending of the second book. On the other hand, perhaps you suspected she would be reincarnated, like Nammi was. How else could she have written her third journal? In the third book we find her reincarnated as an Elf in her new life, thousands of years after her first life, with a new name, Vilya.This book, The Elves of Arthannegh, is a true epic, twice the length of the first book. It tells of the beginning of the ending of Elves in our world and the beginning of the beginning of the Arthurian Legend (the romance of Uther and Igraine), all happening in the same realm at the same time. There are several wars: Britons fighting Romans, Saxons fighting Britons, and Elves fighting Orcs. The Elves are involved in all of this. Vainamoinen reappears too, also with a new name, Merlin, and gives advice and visions of the future to both Elven and British friends, manipulating them for his own purposes.Underneath all the plotting, warfare and bloodshed are two warm romantic love stories. One is the story of Uther and Igraine, the other is the story of Vilya (Sashegh) and the woman she has loved for thousands of years and with whom she always seems to reconnect. The tie between the Elves and the Britons is Igraine who, according to the Arthurian legends, was half-Elven. Because of her, the Elves and the Britons become allies and fight the Saxons and the Orcs together.If this book doesn’t get your heart racing, you should check your pulse, you might be dead! less