The Seeker - Finna's Quest — E.L. Russell

While Finna battles in the Crusades for Eleanor of Aquitaine, a time traveler kidnaps her to fight in a Steampunk war across the galaxy. THE SEEKER â€" Finna's Quest, High Concept Science Fiction, is the first novel and the Origin Story within a seminal series that pre-dates all of our published stories. Follow Finna on her thousand-year mission to lay the foundation for the emergence of Homo Evolutis.Finna Magnusson sees Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine's palace guards gallop through the crowded streets of Vézelay gathering women dressed as Amazons to join her Women's Crusade. Driven by her desire to follow them to the Holy Lands, she enters the male-dominated Squires' Tournament to impress the queen. Finna is invited to join the Second Crusade and endures unspeakable hardships during the long overland journey to Asia Minor. Queen Eleanor takes special notice of Finna and eventually entrusts her with a near-impossible quest.Inexplicably, an elusive protector speaks in her mind throughout the march toward the Holy Land and occasionally pulls her from certain disaster. A mysterious Monk gives Finna aid for a severe head wound. Pursued by assassins and mercenaries, her hair-raising adventures take her across Arabian deserts, Mediterranean ships, and into caves on Crete. She is unaware that the voice in her head keeps her alive on several occasions by resetting the timeline. Finna and her warrior companions are taken the across the galaxy to fight a future war on a distant planet. She struggles with her distrust of their mysterious benefactor and his powers and fights to survive and save the earth from destruction.