Extraordinary Souls: Book I: Wyrdworking

Extraordinary Souls: Wyrdworking (Weirdworking) What if ancient magic never disappeared? It retreated... into the bloodlines, into secrets, into festering wounds of families who know far too much and have a desperate need to reclaim their destiny as giants on Earth. Here, magic is not power over the world. It is fluency with what the ethereal world beyond our world holds. It is the knowledge of its secrets and the ruthlessness to exploit it for personal advantage. REALISTIC ANCIENT MAGIC. No wands, no fireballs, or academies. Wyrdworking is the hidden grammar of the world itself, where fate can be read, nudged, and redirected by those who carry the old blood into the modern world. Magic here is subtle, costly, and terrifyingly plausible. In a world of the ordinary, a new breed of mankind has emerged — twisted, brilliant, dangerous, steeped in the magic of the ancients, and terrifyingly free. They are the Extraordinary Souls. And they do not want to merely fit in. They seek vengeance against a mankind that once stoned, drowned, and burned them at the stake... a mankind that feared them and sought to exterminate them. The story centers on the Wyllt family, one of the most powerful and ambitious of these new, dangerous elites. They want it all, and they can take it. Their greatest, and perhaps only, weakness is their own familial dysfunction. Extraordinary Souls is a dark, electrifying descent into the minds of those who would normally be cast as villains — except here, they are the stars. Charismatic, unpredictable, and ruthless in their intelligence and ambition, these characters don’t simply oppose the system… they rewrite it. Joker, Breaking Bad, and Succession understand something that many modern fantasies forget. The most gripping plots are not generated by the chosen heroes, but by the villains who choose themselves. In Extraordinary Souls, the antagonist is not a shadowy figure lurking at the story's edge. The Wyllt family is at the center of every page. They amplify their ambition. Their logic is coherent. Their justification is legitimate, and their pain is real. Their methods are unconscionable. This is not a tale of good versus evil. This is the origin story of the storm. If you love: Villain-centered storytelling Dark psychological power plays Limited and sinister supernatural abilities that never overshadow the characters who wield them Characters who are as seductive as they are dangerous Then Extraordinary Souls: Wyrdworking will pull you in — and refuse to let go. THE REVOLUTION IS AT HAND! For 1500 years, witches have hidden their secrets from the public, passing their occult skills down through the generations as they waited for a time when they could rise up and seize control from the ordinary, never again to be persecuted for being different—for being EXTRAORDINARY. The witch hunts are over. Now, they are the hunters. MAGIC IS IN THE AIR... AND THAT SHOULD SCARE YOU. The new novel from the author of LORA and the ACCLAIMED SCREENWRITER of the Bruce Willis hit movie "Tears of the Sun" and "Homer and Eddie," which won the Best Picture Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival. “A MASTERFUL PORTRAIT OF DYSFUNCTION AND DARK AMBITION.” - Amazon Review. “Patrick Cirillo has crafted a book so intricately interwoven with intrigue, drama, and magic that I almost forgot I was reading.” - Goodreads Review
ASIN: B0FHG59K68
VSKU: BVV.B0FHG59K68.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Cirillo, Patrick
Binding: Paperback
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