The Alchemist, A Novel of Suspense by Donna Boyd, Now Available at a Special Price

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Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Ballantine Books …

The Alchemist by Donna Boyd

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/29/2016 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

On an upper floor of a plush, high-security building on Central Park West, an elegant man sits in the office of Dr. Anne Kramer, confessing to the heinous murder that has horrified the modern world. Randolf Sontime is renowned for his personal charm, and Dr. Kramer is fighting to keep from falling victim to it. For the first time in her life, she truly understands the meaning of the word "charisma." Not knowing that her own destiny is irrevocably tied to his, Anne Kramer listens to the story of Sontime's life.

"It began with the magic, you see. And so, perforce, must I." As a boy named Han at the House of Ra, an isolated oasis in the Egyptian desert of a far ancient time, Sontime lived in privilege. There the chosen were trained in the science of alchemy — magic, philosophy, miracles. Only two other initiates were as skilled as he: Akan, quiet and studious, a boy whose thirst for knowledge was matched only by his hunger for truth; and Nefar, beautiful and brilliant, a girl as filled with wonder and unfathomable ambition as Han himself. Together they discovered that in union, theirs was a power unmatched in the physical world.

But even in the House of Ra, there were boundaries to be observed, knowledge that only the masters understood and feared. As the threesome's thirst for answers — and for each other — deepened, they were tempted by the dark arts that they had sworn to avoid. "Look at three magnificent youths who stand astride your world and scoff at the rules you must obey … . Look at us, and call us gods." Their power was palpable, their desire total — until the fateful moment when their alliance was forever damned, their gifts horribly corrupted.

— The Alchemist by Donna Boyd

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