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Can I read Maia on EtoBox?
Maia by Richard George Adams is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Maia about?
Maia is a fifteen-year-old peasant beauty growing up in poverty beside Lake Serrelind. Seduced by her stepfather and betrayed by her jealous mother, Maia finds herself in the hands of slave-traders to be sold as a concubine. She attracts the attention of General Kembri who uses her to obtain information from her admirers and her adventures uncover a plot for civil war. Proclaimed as a heroine, she finds that one sinister result of fame is to have enemies in high places and Maia has to struggle for survival through treachery, cruelty, lost love and a final flight through a wild empire to escape a crumbling regime.
Who reads Maia?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Richard George Adams
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Published
- 1984
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780670800339
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (1,594 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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