The Map Maker's Journey.

Set in a new world made up of desert and large volatile seas, the character and adventure driven story is a 155,000 word sci-fi urban fantasy and is the first of three books. Unpredictable and action packed, the book weaves a tale about exploration, self discovery, complex relationships, friendship, and overcoming the dark forces that try and seduce Rayah into a life of self indulgence and corruption.
Quick-witted, self sufficient, ambitious and extremely curious Rayah Tanney has become a master cartographer and sets out on her maiden voyage into the new world of Illias-Tas to explore the untraveled terrain and its hybrid species and to transcribe her own maps. Having been orphaned at an early age Rayah has a bone to pick with the world. She is determined to prove her worth and is elated to be practicing her trade for the first time in her life. Having always felt different from the other children in her village and being somewhat of a loner she is eager to set herself apart from all the others in her small home town village of Bizantium and prove to them she is more than what they believe her to be. She is keen to travel to places no man would ever dream of travelling and become famous for her expeditions. She has no idea that a chance encounter with the handsome mysterious mancer Zerran Khallray who would save her life more than once, would lead to a series of unusual events that would open Rayah’s eyes once and for all to the art of magic, power, lust and the tragedy of war.