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The Fragile Art Of Existence
Three men with widely divergent backgrounds, each recruited for a specific purpose; to find a thirteen year old girl with powers that are not of this world.
Daniel Callahan is a shadow warrior who has been trained from the age of eight to fulfill an unknown destiny. For the last seven years, he has been tracking a killer known as the hanged man by following clues left specifically for him by his adversary. The latest would-be victim, however, lived through the ordeal, and he caught a glimpse of his assailant . . .
David Thomas has recently lost his wife and baby daughter in a tragic car crash that might not have been as accidental as it seemed. While driving through a secluded stretch of desert, he sees a young girl walking along the side of the road and stops to pick her up. His life will never be the same . . .
Victor Ronald Porter is a convicted child molester who hears a voice in his head while in prison. The voice claims to be a god of terrible strength, and it offers Victor a proposition. In exchange for his services, Victor will receive powers beyond his imagination . . .
Pulling the strings of these men are two separate entities, each of whom wish to use the girl for their own purposes; purposes that could alter our world beyond recognition.
IMPORTANT AUTHOR'S If you’ve read any of my other work, some material in this story may seem familiar. Sorry about that. But fifteen years ago, when I was struggling to get published the traditional way, I was fixated on a couple of specific ideas. When I’d finish a book and send it to agents and it would get rejected, I would essentially re-write it in a different but very similar way. These books all ended up being separate (but similar) entities, borrowing material in some cases and merely coming off as variations on a theme in others. But none of them ever turned out exactly the way I wanted them to, so I kept on tweaking them in an attempt to get them right. So, long story short, there is some of my other books (especially Thirteen and Darkness Unbound) in this story, and there is some of this story in those others. I hope this doesn’t upset any of you out there. I simply spent so much time on each book that I thought it would be cool to throw them all out there into the world and see if any of them stuck. Think of them as parallel universes if that helps, where things are close to the same as here but with a few minor differences. I hope you understand.
I consider the Thirteen Chronicles (Thirteen and Darkness Unbound, with the final book in the trilogy still to come) as canon. The Fragile Art of Existence is more of a companion piece, what happened in a universe parallel to the one in which Logan, Sophia, Peter, Fisher, Ezra, Alexander and all the others inhabit.
Daniel Callahan is a shadow warrior who has been trained from the age of eight to fulfill an unknown destiny. For the last seven years, he has been tracking a killer known as the hanged man by following clues left specifically for him by his adversary. The latest would-be victim, however, lived through the ordeal, and he caught a glimpse of his assailant . . .
David Thomas has recently lost his wife and baby daughter in a tragic car crash that might not have been as accidental as it seemed. While driving through a secluded stretch of desert, he sees a young girl walking along the side of the road and stops to pick her up. His life will never be the same . . .
Victor Ronald Porter is a convicted child molester who hears a voice in his head while in prison. The voice claims to be a god of terrible strength, and it offers Victor a proposition. In exchange for his services, Victor will receive powers beyond his imagination . . .
Pulling the strings of these men are two separate entities, each of whom wish to use the girl for their own purposes; purposes that could alter our world beyond recognition.
IMPORTANT AUTHOR'S If you’ve read any of my other work, some material in this story may seem familiar. Sorry about that. But fifteen years ago, when I was struggling to get published the traditional way, I was fixated on a couple of specific ideas. When I’d finish a book and send it to agents and it would get rejected, I would essentially re-write it in a different but very similar way. These books all ended up being separate (but similar) entities, borrowing material in some cases and merely coming off as variations on a theme in others. But none of them ever turned out exactly the way I wanted them to, so I kept on tweaking them in an attempt to get them right. So, long story short, there is some of my other books (especially Thirteen and Darkness Unbound) in this story, and there is some of this story in those others. I hope this doesn’t upset any of you out there. I simply spent so much time on each book that I thought it would be cool to throw them all out there into the world and see if any of them stuck. Think of them as parallel universes if that helps, where things are close to the same as here but with a few minor differences. I hope you understand.
I consider the Thirteen Chronicles (Thirteen and Darkness Unbound, with the final book in the trilogy still to come) as canon. The Fragile Art of Existence is more of a companion piece, what happened in a universe parallel to the one in which Logan, Sophia, Peter, Fisher, Ezra, Alexander and all the others inhabit.
288 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 11, 2015
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