{"product_id":"the-fire-in-the-gem-j-michael-howell-9798266848030","title":"The Fire in the Gem: Goddess of Broken Dreams Book 1","description":"\u003cp\u003ePriests 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe 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 But a freak event during a medical procedure sends her to a world in which science and respect have been replaced by superstition and slavery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCoral 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaught 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Michael Howell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798266848030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/23\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.58d","brand":"J. Michael Howell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49170373574911,"sku":"9798266848030","price":13.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fire-in-the-gem-j-michael-howell-9798266848030","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}