Seeker: The Mountain of light

If you enjoyed The Hunger Games, you will enjoy Seeker.

Set four thousand years after the War of Dividing, Seeker is the story of Salgar, the illegitimate son born to the iconic beauty Elona, of the Holy Brevon Empire and David, the ambassador from the consumer nation of Nuon.

When the High Precept Sulhan learns of Elona’s treason in bedding a Nuon unbeliever, he seeks revenge. He banishes her son Salgar to the Diemzee, a desperate land where outcasts die a slow, painful death.

Salgar is rescued by a small group of Intuit, who eke out a living there. He is taken under the wing of Polah, the wise woman of the tribe, who sees in him portents of greatness. Salgar must face a series of trials, through which he comes to the realization that there is a third way, a better way to live than either Nuon or Brevon offer…