"An astounding epic novel of J.R.R. Tolkien proportions!"
— Steven Pressfield,
Bestselling author of Gates of Fire and The War of Art
An advance reader offer as epic as Michael McClellan's 752-page debut novel, The Sand Sea
With a cast of Raiders of the Lost Ark playing A Game of Thrones, The Sand Sea is an immersive experience made to order for epic fantasy fans and anyone who enjoys grand-scale historical fiction.
By signing up to receive a complimentary, shareable advance reader's eBook edition of The Sand Sea, you agree to:
- Read the book by Wednesday, June 24th (on-sale date)
- Write an honest review and publish it on Amazon.com or GoodReads.com on Wednesday, June 24th.
A Message from Steven Pressfield
About the Author
Michael McClellan lives in California with his wife and their two daughters. He received his history degree from Yale, with an emphasis on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since childhood, he has loved reading large-canvas historical and imaginative fiction the most. He eventually realized there was a book he wanted to read that had not yet been written. That story became The Sand Sea. It is his first novel.
Get an Advance Reader's Copy
By signing up to receive a complimentary, shareable advance reader's eBook edition of The Sand Sea, you agree to:
- Read the book by Wednesday, June 24th (on-sale date)
- Write an honest review and publish it on Amazon.com or GoodReads.com on Wednesday, June 24th.
About the Book
Raiders of the Lost Ark playing A Game of Thrones
The Sand Sea takes place on an alternative Earth roiled by war and conquest that mirrors our own Gilded Age. The treasure that ignites greed and folly in this parallel world is not petroleum, but beserite—a mineral of immeasurable value.
Captivated by an ancient prophecy and the call of adventure, inexperienced nobleman and scholar Peter Harmon (think of a young Winston Churchill-like naif) joins an expedition to stake his nation’s claim to a global empire.
Harmon’s destination is a vast and inhospitable desert halfway around the world, dominated by the iron-fisted Grand Vizer Jemojeen Jongdar. A tyrant on a mission to secure the ancient and supernatural Staff of the Ram, the Lion, and the Serpent, Jongdar knows the truth that others can only imagine: The one who controls the staff will possess the power to rule the world.
Before he can seize his destiny, Jongdar must find and destroy the one person capable of thwarting his ambition, the rightful heir to the Sand Sea realm, an innocent woman named Selena Savanar.
Can the brave and indomitable Selena accept her true destiny and rally her people in the eye of a gathering storm? To do so will require her to outwit the man who burned her father alive and left her an orphan and beggar a lifetime ago. Or will Peter Harmon and the cadre of opportunists he rides with conquer the divided empire?
With the mythic structure of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy in a world as rich and real as George R.R. Martin’s Westeros, The Sand Sea is an immersive experience made to order for epic fantasy fans and anyone who enjoys grand-scale historical fiction.
Get an Advance Reader's Copy
By signing up to receive a complimentary, shareable advance reader's eBook edition of The Sand Sea, you agree to:
- Read the book by Wednesday, June 24th (on-sale date)
- Write an honest review and publish it on Amazon.com or GoodReads.com on Wednesday, June 24th.