The Empty House: The Lombard Alchemist Tales, #5

By J. Daniel Sawyer

Alan Tosetti set the sterling standard in a town built on silver. The greatest architect in Nevada history, he died before he could finish his masterpiece Craftsman. Two years later, his youngest daughter, died in the same house, sitting in front of the fire, of old age.
She was only twenty-six.
When the tales of Tosetti's legacy draws a hungry young architect from the big city, he finds a broken-down ruin with a soul full of music, and a chilling secret that can only be unlocked with the help of a demonic pawnshop in the radioactive wastes in a broken-down city at the edge of nowhere.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AWP Fantasy
• Release date: Feb 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781501427640

J. Daniel Sawyer

WHILE STAR WARS and STAR TREK seeded J. Daniel Sawyer's passion for the unknown, his childhood in academia gave him a deep love of history and an obsession with how the future emerges from the past. This obsession led him through adventures in the film industry, the music industry, venture capital firms in the startup culture of Silicon Valley, and a career creating novels and audiobooks exploring the worlds that assemble themselves in his head. His travels with bohemians, burners, historians, theologians, and inventors led him eventually to a rural exile where he uses the quiet to write, walk on the beach, and manage a pair of production companies that bring innovative stories to the ears of audiences across the world. For stories, contact info, podcasts, and more, visit his home page at http://www.jdsawyer.net

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The Empty House

A Lombard Alchemist Tale

by J. Daniel Sawyer

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Copyright © 2014 J. Daniel Sawyer

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Dedication

For Steena

The Empty House

A Lombard Alchemist Tale

J. Daniel Sawyer

IN THE END, LONLINESS WAS the real problem. Normally, one doesn't think of a house as being lonely, unless perhaps it sits on the crown of a remote mountain. Normally, houses can't be lonely. Then again, most houses weren't hand-built by Alan Tosetti, and most houses that he built weren't left unfinished when he keeled over in the middle of shaping the edge molding on the mantelpiece, or occupied in their unfinished state by his grieving daughter who was convinced that his spirit somehow lived on in the timbers.

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