The 53rd Card: A Dark Tale about Finding Light

2018 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award -- Gold Winner 2018 Midwest Book Awards -- Gold Winner 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards -- Gold Winner & Finalist 12th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards -- Gold Winner & Finalist 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award -- Honorable MentionYearning for that indefinable thing, that ever-elusive something one might call home? The 53rd Card may point your way to it. Agoraphobic Emma Addison is afraid of any place too far from home, afraid of outside. But when one Christmas Eve she inadvertently summons the devil, she opens a door that will not close. Emma dismisses her unbidden guest, though not before relinquishing a cherished stone carving of Kuan Yin--an unwitting concession that bestows on her an unusual power. This power isn't much--but it's plenty enough to spark a craving for the devil's tantalizing promise of more. And now Emma has some disquieting choices to make. Because if the devil is real, doesn't that mean God is too? But if God is real, then why is the world such a mess and so desperately wanting the attention of the very power in her hands? Meanwhile, a door hangs open, a portal through which the devil will step, through which a host of divine beings will follow, all with an agenda of their own. And impelled to the remotest regions of faith and doubt, Emma discovers a place beyond both--a place the reader just might recognize as home.

About the Author

An avid student of the esoteric, Virginia Weiss spends much of her time pondering the mysteries that confound us all. That said, she claims one moment of suspended thought taught her more about what is true than a lifetime of study and contemplation. Weiss lives in Minnesota. The 53rd Card is her first novel.

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