The Wise One series (and it is a series) has been over twenty years in the making. ��The book Talismans, that is officially the first in the group was written in 2016. ��However, the first concepts for the Wise Ones began as early as 1996. ��It started life as a fairy tale about a mousy little girl from terrible circumstances who was given a gift to escape that life. ��After a tidal wave of trials she transforms herself slowly into a queen. ��All of my��beta readers enjoyed it,��but began begging for