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THE BURNING GEM: A SOUL CATCHER NOVEL
THE SOUL CATCHER SERIES: BOOK 1
THE BURNING GEM: A SOUL CATCHER NOVEL
THE SOUL CATCHER SERIES: BOOK 1
The Burning Gem is a story of hidden worlds beneath our own, of lost train stations and unholy customs.
The Burning Gem spins from chance meeting of a woman ready for adventure after years in a loveless marriage and a mysterious artisan who will show her another world.
Barbara has always had an uncanny ability to read others, but her full empathic skills emerge only after a part of her soul is crystalized into a flaming red gem. Desperate to escape her soul-crushing suburban life and to reconnect with the mysterious man who made her gem, she makes her way on foot through the terrifying NY subway tunnels to find an abandoned station.
Zoltan is a gem maker who lives an existence of opulent bitterness. Along with a network of other agents, his job is to catch souls and form them into magnificent jewels. He works with referrals only, and how his clients – rising CEOs, ambitious politicians, vainglorious religious leaders -- are selected is of no concern to him. He is 110 years old. While Zoltan’s contract with the hideous Mester – who may or may not be human – promises him wealth and extended life, it also prohibits him from touching another person, or even sharing his true name.
Zoltan risks everything to discover the true nature of the sinister cabal he has been part of.
Their base of operations is a long-forgotten 1873 subway terminal, now transformed into the Market, a hidden community of seers, shapeshifters, artisans with extraordinary skills, keepers of ancient knowledge. From here Barbara and Zoltan follow leads that take them to the ruin bars and dark alleys of Budapest in a desperate race to find the truth and neutralize the Mester before he kills them.
The Burning Gem spins from chance meeting of a woman ready for adventure after years in a loveless marriage and a mysterious artisan who will show her another world.
Barbara has always had an uncanny ability to read others, but her full empathic skills emerge only after a part of her soul is crystalized into a flaming red gem. Desperate to escape her soul-crushing suburban life and to reconnect with the mysterious man who made her gem, she makes her way on foot through the terrifying NY subway tunnels to find an abandoned station.
Zoltan is a gem maker who lives an existence of opulent bitterness. Along with a network of other agents, his job is to catch souls and form them into magnificent jewels. He works with referrals only, and how his clients – rising CEOs, ambitious politicians, vainglorious religious leaders -- are selected is of no concern to him. He is 110 years old. While Zoltan’s contract with the hideous Mester – who may or may not be human – promises him wealth and extended life, it also prohibits him from touching another person, or even sharing his true name.
Zoltan risks everything to discover the true nature of the sinister cabal he has been part of.
Their base of operations is a long-forgotten 1873 subway terminal, now transformed into the Market, a hidden community of seers, shapeshifters, artisans with extraordinary skills, keepers of ancient knowledge. From here Barbara and Zoltan follow leads that take them to the ruin bars and dark alleys of Budapest in a desperate race to find the truth and neutralize the Mester before he kills them.
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THE TUNNELS OF BUDA: A SOUL CATCHER NOVEL
THE SOUL CATCHER SERIES: BOOK 2
THE TUNNELS OF BUDA: A SOUL CATCHER NOVEL
THE SOUL CATCHER SERIES: BOOK 2
The second installment of Don Sawyer’s critically acclaimed Soul Catcher Series continues in mystery and magical form.
WELCOME TO THE TUNNELS OF BUDA
The Mester is dead or maimed and the black stone used to control his network of gem makers is in Barbara and Zoltan’s hands. But as Zoltan discovered in the ruin bars of Budapest from a former associate, who turned up beheaded and his hands cut off, the Mester was just a small part of a much larger cabal, an ancient Order dating back to Aristotle and beyond. The Order has one goal: to convince the populace that there are masters divinely intended to rule and slaves meant only to obey. Using magic and sorcery, both ancient and modern, they will stop at nothing to protect the rule of the aristoi.
But this time the “slaves” are fighting back, drawing on the knowledge and skills from many traditions and backgrounds, including magic of their own, to battle this shadowy cabal and its message of fear, division and hopelessness.
In The Tunnels of Buda Zoltan, the 110-year-old gem maker and Barbara, empath and gem wielder, veer in new and terrifying directions, facing evil on an unimagined scale. They are drawn to the lair of the Justin, so powerful he controls the minds of all around him and who commands the Company, a hidden underground futuristic complex that serves as the hub of the Order’s monstrous conspiracy to enact the darkest of Nietzsche’s Weltanschauung.
Barbara and Zoltan find new allies and diabolical enemies as they fight for their lives in the mines and ancient tunnels deep below Buda Castle in Budapest.
Sawyer's deft interweaving of elaborate descriptions, an absorbing plot and intriguing characters has resulted in a unique, sophisticated, and alluring novel.”
– Carmen Rodriguez, award-winning author of Altacama, a novel
…a meticulously crafted, richly imagined, complexly plotted, deep and magical allegory…”
– Charlie Price, Edgar Award-winning author of The Interrogation of Gabriel James
THE LUNCH BAG CHRONICLESShare this with a class, or better still with your own children, and you are sure to hear moans and groans for the puns and tons of laughter for the humour.” – Suzanne Pierson One of the most charming, inspired and inspiring books I've ever come across.” – Chris Schon WHERE THE RIVERS MEET
A little-heralded classic” – BC Bookworld This is a very powerful book.” – CBC Morningside |
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Don Sawyer writes with a sense of humor children can understand…” – CW Magazine RUNNING…takes young adult readers down another true path. It will hold readers’ attention to a surprising yet triumphant finish.” – Brian Johnston TOMORROW IS SCHOOL
I am so glad this classic book is back in print; I’ve been recommending it for years.” – Mike Rose, professor and author of Lives on the Boundary and Possible Lives |
