by C. G. Garcia
She immediately cleared her mind of those troubling thoughts to find that Kiryl was once again staring at her as if he had knowledge of every secret she harbored even in the dark corners of her soul.
He knows what I was thinking, she thought suddenly, feeling the hair behind her neck start to rise as she mutely returned the stare. God help me, he knows something about me, some secret that maybe I don’t even know myself, yet all he does is stare at me with that damned knowing look in his eyes. What is it? Do I dare ask him?
So many secrets, so much she didn’t understand about this world, about what she had become, even about Aidric who seemed to carry his own aura of mystery about him. Would there be an end to it all, or was she cursed to be the pawn in some preternatural game in which an alien god commanded her every move, for good or ill, for the rest of her life?
Prophecies, myths, legends—she had once been really interested in such things. Allison never thought that she would end up as one, and now as she stared into the eyes of Master Kiryl, she wondered why she had ever thought they were fun and exciting.
“Truths, child,” Kiryl spoke suddenly. “Only when you find them will the turmoil within your soul cease to torment you. Aidric Stanisnik will guide you with his teachings, but it is ultimately you who will discover them and use them to choose which path fate has sent you to walk upon. I know your mind. You long to be released from that which you have been destined to decide, but it cannot be so. Seni has chosen you. Now go, and remember well what I have said today. Remember and learn what you must, for the time of decision is nearly upon us.”
THE MAN WITHIN THE TEMPLE
BOOK TWO
Depressed and overwhelmed by learning the true meaning of her destiny as the Golden Mage as well as the major part she, along with Aidric, Keldan, and Aren, will play as foretold within the Prophecy of the Six, Allison despairs of ever picking up the pieces of her shattered life. Then to add insult to injury, the Temple of Seni sends representatives to Lamia to collect her in order that she may swear oaths to Seni as is required by divine law. The party is led by Eban, a Domnae full of an infinite amount of ambition and utterly despised by Aidric for reasons he refuses to confide to anyone. However, though suspicious of his motives, Eban’s the least of her worries as going to the Temple means leaving the protection of Lamia’s Shield with very little mage training under her belt at a time when hostilities with Mihr are at their highest, and rumors of a spy planted within the palace by Roderick have begun to arise.
The wheels of fate are turning ever so quickly, and Allison feels the threads of her life becoming helplessly and dangerously entangled within its spokes, even more so now as she is exposed to the politics of the Temple, itself.
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The Golden Mage Trilogy
The Man Within the Temple (Book Two)
The Last Stone Cast (Book Three)
Old Souls
Old Souls (Book One)
The Ties that Bind the Soul (Book Two)
The Name Within His Soul (Book Three) *Coming Soon
Issai has had enough. For the past five thousand plus years, he has been successively reborn hundreds of times with all his previous lives’ memories intact, all the while relentlessly compelled to wander the earth in pursuit of an elusive something he has yet to even identify. Over the centuries, whispers of others similar to him began to surface, and his kind became known as Old Souls.
Unable to find answers for his seemingly endless existence and no longer willing to play in what he fears is just a game for the gods’ amusement, Issai abandons his wanderings and questions and settles in an isolated town in the kingdom of Sarim, determined to resist the strong urge to be on the move that has dictated his entire existence. However, he is attacked shortly by the Shi, hunters of Old Souls that believe they can steal their “immortality” by consuming parts of an Old Soul through various rituals.
Forced to flee, Issai soon encounters Hahri, a loud-mouthed Old Soul with the same compulsion and inhuman speed to rival Issai’s own, inadvertently triggering a painful reaction to each other that is aggravated by the distance between them. When escaping Hahri proves futile and the other offers him a hint to the mystery behind their compulsion, Issai not only reluctantly finds himself once again in pursuit of the very answers he had forsaken, but also running from a relentless enemy whose unprecedented numbers suggest that immortality may not be their only goal.
Fractured Multiverse
The Supreme Moment
Black Crimson (Blood Fire Chronicles Book One) *Coming Soon
What would you do when every choice is the wrong one?
The moment a bunch of men with guns kicked in the doors of her house, eighteen-year-old Avery Morgan knew her estranged father's gambling addiction had finally caught up to her family in the worst way. On the brink of doing something unspeakable to save her little sister from being taken, she is interrupted by the sudden arrival of Darrien Stathos, a billionaire business mogul whose true persona is rumored to be the lord of the criminal underworld known as Kairos. Darrien announces that he is also there to collect on a contract with Avery's father—for Avery.
As she struggles with the reality of being the property of an alleged crime lord and the constant harassment of two FBI agents, several disturbing observations about Darrien's eyes and the frightening, inexplicable ways he stops a couple of would-be assassins make Avery rethink her initial dismissal of some of the more outlandish gossip that questioned his humanity.
Add to that learning a disturbing and dangerous truth about herself, and Avery is ready to break, especially when the truth of Darrien's identity is something that will shatter the very foundation of her understanding of reality.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
C.G. Garcia lives in a small West Texas town whose claim to fame is having the world’s largest Rattlesnake Round-Up. She has a degree in computer science, but due to life’s twisted sense of humor, ended up working in a pharmacy before retiring to write full time. A lifelong lover of all things fantasy, science fiction, and the paranormal, she is also the author of the Fractured Multiverse urban fantasy series and the Old Souls epic fantasy trilogy.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
THE MAN WITHIN THE TEMPLE
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