OK, I read the book finally, so now I can comment more edumacatedly. I returned the book to the library already, so I can't read the book flap, but from what has been posted I don't see it as misleading at all.
"Maya too has her secrets, and as Will unravels them, he begins to fear he might have made a terrible mistake."
Nowhere does it say that Will is being mislead, only that Maya is keeping secrets which is true.
Anyway, I thought this was a great book, Paul. **SPOILER** I thought the healing concept was very similar to the actions taken by Pard in Healer. I have read similar ideas and it gives one pause to consider the power of the human mind. If it is indeed true that humans only use about 10% of their brain capacity, how much more are we actually capable of? Can the power of belief and of the human will be harnessed? The possibilities are endless.
Again, GREAT book, Paul. Keep these "off-formula" novels coming. As much as I love the RJ novels (and all the others), nothing is better than something new and fresh.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft