The Fire in the Gem: Goddess of Broken Dreams Book 1

By J. Michael Howell

Priests with prayers of healing, wizards who employ demons to defend the realm - and sixteen-year-old Coral Blakely, who, according to the known laws of physics, shouldn't be here at all.

She dreams of idyllic past times to escape her life of poverty, playground bullies and the hell of chemotherapy. But a freak event during a medical procedure sends her to a world in which science and respect have been replaced by superstition and slavery.

Coral faces a brutal existence in a dystopian Dark Age. Unable to speak their language, her survival rests in the dubious hands of a silver-tongued tomb robber and his lover, a drug-crazed minstrel who hides her own secrets.

Caught up in a perilous power struggle between faith and magic, they can only save themselves by restoring lost knowledge - as recalled by a cancer-stricken schoolgirl. Coral must become an unlikely champion of the science she needs to survive. Ahead lies an even greater challenge: teach the tragic lessons of human history to prevent this Dark Age from becoming even darker.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FSNTHX5P
• ISBN13: 9798266848030
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"