The Devil Pulls the Strings

The Devil Pulls the Strings is the pulse-pounding first tale in the Archivist series.

This second edition exists because readers, producers, and studio executives took the time to share what they wanted: a protagonist who arrives sooner, whose motivation hits harder, who drives the story instead of chasing it, along with deeper backstory and expanded details. Their feedback made this story better, and this edition is the result.

For readers who felt lost keeping track of the book's rich cast of characters, a character glossary was added to the front of the book. For fantasy readers who craved deeper detail on the world and its mythology rooted in authentic Slavic folklore, a comprehensive glossary was added to the back.

The Librarians. The Magicians. The Dresden Files. Neil Gaiman's Sandman. The Devil Pulls the Strings belongs in that conversation, and then goes somewhere none of them have gone before.

Set across modern-day Wentzville, MO, New York City, and 1813 Genoa, Italy, the story weaves bromance, Slavic mythology inherited from oral tradition, secret societies, Paganini's music, and time travel into something that operates on layers upon layers upon layers.

Twenty-two-year-old Boone Daniels experiences the world differently. Music floods his vision with color and taste. Action words materialize around him like panels leaping off a comic book page. And his memory never lets anything go.

Not helping is the evil spirit, a wendigo, that has haunted him since age six, nor the debilitating panic attacks and gut-wrenching guilt he feels for almost killing his best friend in a joust. And when he fills in for that same injured friend at a New York gig, he goes to meet the gig's contact at a NYC brownstone, only to watch him fall from the balcony as gunfire erupts around him.

Boone barely escapes and uncovers a sinister plot to perform Paganini's secret sonata that summons the Devil, to be used to trap Baba Yaga. Not the two-dimensional villain you have seen before, but the full, ancient, terrifying supernatural force of Slavic folklore. And destroy modern-day New York City.

Now he is racing through time to capture a cursed melody before it ends everything. A Romani immortal, steampunk vampires, and Baba Yaga herself set the stage for war. Boone will have to risk death for redemption.

All he really wants is to keep a promise to a friend. The same friend he almost killed last Sunday.

Can a small-town Missouri musician outplay the supernatural and save NYC's soul?

If you love tortured heroes, epic battles, time travel, twisted history, and secret societies colliding, and a Baba Yaga rendered in her full folkloric glory for the first time, you will love J. W. Zarek's spectacular page-turner, The Devil Pulls the Strings, Second Edition.

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Guardian Angel: We Don't Die Book Two

Detective Dallas Scott was a cocky, selfish womanizer until a car accident lands him in a coma. Stuck between life and death, Scott makes a deal with Lucifer: let him live so he can catch the hitman who killed his partner, and when it’s checkout time, Lucifer can collect his soul. What Scott didn’t count on was that when he wakes up from the coma, he can now see souls. And there are plenty of them, including another detective who was killed in the line of duty under mysterious circumstances, and the soul of a girl who is determined to help Scott find the killer.

But with crooked cops, an evil soul bent on revenge, and his wife teetering on the brink of depression, Scott has his work cut out for him . . . if he can stay alive and out of the hands of the devil.

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Business Powered By Metaphysics How to Attract Success, Abundance & Sanity

 

 Business Powered By Metaphysics

How to Attract Success, Abundance & Sanity

(Without Burning Out Your Chakras)

Business Powered By Metaphysics: How to Attract Success, Abundance & Sanity (Without Burning Out Your Chakras)

Ready to scale your business and your energy? Tired of burnout, boring boardrooms, and bland business books that forgot humans run the show? Welcome to the only business book brave enough to talk about smudging your office, whispering to your wallet, and dancing your way into abundance.

Business Powered By Metaphysics is your hilarious, high-vibe guide to building a wildly successful business—one that's powered by intuition, intention, and a little metaphysical mojo.

Inside, you'll discover how to:

• Turn your business into a living, breathing energetic powerhouse
• Attract wealth using sigils, crystals, and yes—affirmations with flair
• Balance hustle with hammock time (because rest IS a business strategy)
• Use modern metaphysical tools like digital energy work, AI-enhanced journaling, and cosmic branding
• Keep your life, relationships, health, and joy in perfect harmony while you grow your empire

You’ll also get:

• 57+ chapters of woo-meets-wisdom content
• Quirky rituals for manifesting money while sleeping, sipping coffee, or finding coins on the ground
• A full breakdown of prosperity foods, moon-powered launch days, and wealth-attracting wardrobe choices
• Subtle (and not-so-subtle) humor that keeps things refreshingly real

Whether you’re a soulful entrepreneur, creative dreamer, or burned-out business boss looking for a reset, this book will help you reconnect with your purpose, recharge your passion, and realign your business with the universal flow of abundance.

Because success isn’t just about spreadsheets—it’s about vibes, vision boards, and vibrating at the frequency of “HECK YES.”

Business Powered By Metaphysics isn’t your typical business book—and thank the Universe for that. This wildly insightful (and occasionally cheeky) guide blends ancient wisdom with entrepreneurial fire to help you grow a business that not only makes money but also makes sense. Literally. As in, sensing energy, intuition, and maybe even that weird coin you stuck under your pillow to attract clients while you nap.

Dr. Rob Alex, metaphysical maestro and business whisperer, takes you on a journey through 57 chapters of energetic entrepreneurship, including how to attract prosperity without selling your soul (or your sanity), how to treat your business like the living, breathing entity it truly is, and why your bills deserve a good laugh.

Whether you’re a crystal-loving CEO or just metaphysically curious with a mortgage, this book delivers practical, magical, and hilariously honest wisdom for building success—your way. Business has never felt so aligned (or so fun).

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Ultra Realm (3 book series)

  

Ultra Realm (3 book series)

Against Machines is a trilogy set in a world where humanity has lost control to the machines that were built to protect it. At its center is Aston, a young man raised in a monastery after being separated from his father at seven years old, a microchip placed in his palm and a war raging below. When he is forced to compete in Ultra Realm, the machine-controlled spectacle built to consume people and call it entertainment, he discovers not just what he is capable of but what he is willing to become. He wins the race. He breaks the chip. He walks out of the arena and into a world that is not free yet, but is finally first.

The trilogy follows Aston across three books as he builds a resistance, avenges his father, and races the machines one final time in front of hundreds of thousands of witnesses — not to survive, but to prove something that no machine can calculate and no system can control. It is a story about the difference between direction and reason, between winning and being worth the winning. About a father who refused one order and changed everything. About four people who grew up together not knowing what they were being made for, and what they built when they finally found out.

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Ultra Realm (3 book series)

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Fragments of Wrath

      

Fragments of Wrath

Twelve-hundred years ago, the Bloodmoon shattered. Now, a single, wrathful shard has fallen into Skeltryal. The Reckoning has begun. On a night that should have been like any other, a wrathful shard comes crashing into the Astern Sea, igniting a clash between those devoted to the Blood gods and the worshipers of the Celestial realms. As the wrath of the gods stir once more, Skeltryal is threatened with a war that could reshape the world into a living Abyss. Mysteries are unraveled and tensions rise between the four elemental kingdoms. Six must find their place. The astronomer, who will unravel the Blood gods’ dark ambitions; the assassin, bound to Insanity; the atheist, conflicted by belief when fables become reality; the Bloodkissed, discovering forbidden truths in the lands of the lost; the Scholar, who defies his sanctum’s laws to stop a looming war; and the Hollow, who begins a descent into darkness from which he may never return. As fate draws their paths together, each must choose where they stand in the coming storm—beneath the Bloodmoon’s wrath or against it.

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Why You Should Be Listening to the Make Peace With Life Podcast

There are approximately 47 billion podcasts in the world.

Okay, I made that number up.

But some days it certainly feels like it.

So why should you add the Make Peace With Life Podcast to your listening list?

Because we're trying to do something a little different. We aren't here to convince you that your life is completely screwed up and that you need seventeen steps, nine supplements, three seminars, and a retreat on a mountain to fix yourself.

Our message starts somewhere much simpler:

You are not broken.

You might be confused sometimes. You might be stressed. You might make questionable decisions. You may occasionally walk into a room and completely forget why you're there.

Welcome to being human.

And that's exactly what we talk about.

Metaphysics Without Taking Ourselves Too Seriously

The Make Peace With Life Podcast explores the strange, wonderful, frustrating, funny, spiritual, energetic, and occasionally completely ridiculous adventure of being alive.

We talk about metaphysics, happiness, energy, relationships, spirituality, personal growth, music, travel, mysteries, everyday observations, and those weird little things about life that make you stop and think:

"Wait... why DO we do that?"

One episode might have us talking about positive energy and finding happiness.

Another might take us into Crystal Skulls, Bigfoot, national parks, the energy of crowds, or why relaxing can somehow become exhausting.

That's the beauty of Making Peace With Life.

Everything is connected.

And sometimes the deepest spiritual revelation arrives while you're stuck in traffic, standing in the slowest grocery-store checkout line, listening to a song you haven't heard in twenty years, or staring at a lava lamp.

Enlightenment apparently has a strange sense of humor.

We're Not Trying to Give You a Perfect Life

Perfect lives sound incredibly boring.

We'd rather help you find the extraordinary energy already hiding inside your imperfect life.

The Make Peace With Life philosophy isn't about eliminating every problem.

It's about changing your relationship with life.

Laugh more.

Explore more.

Question things.

Be curious.

Notice energy.

Stop comparing yourself to everybody else.

Find the things that make you feel alive.

And maybe become a little more comfortable with the beautifully weird person you already are.

If you finish an episode feeling a little happier, thinking about something differently, or laughing about something you hadn't considered before...

We've done our job.

But We Need Your Help

Here's where you become part of this.

We want to grow the Make Peace With Life community and get this message in front of as many people as possible.

And one of the easiest ways you can help is completely FREE.

Subscribe to the Make Peace With Life Podcast on YouTube.

Subscribe to the Make Peace With Life Podcast on YouTube

Every new subscriber helps us reach another person.

And another.

And another.

That's how energy spreads.

One person shares something with another person, who shares it with someone else, and suddenly a little idea becomes a movement.

We'd like to see just how big we can make this thing.

Subscribe and You Could Win a Make Peace With Life Shirt!

We're also adding a little incentive.

Because apparently positive metaphysical energy is even better when you're wearing it.

When you subscribe to our YouTube podcast channel, you're automatically entered for a chance to win a Make Peace With Life shirt.

And this isn't just one giveaway.

Every time we reach another 100 subscribers, we're giving away another shirt!

100 subscribers?

Shirt.

200?

Another shirt.

300?

You guessed it.

Another shirt.

As this community grows, we want the giveaways to grow right along with it.

So subscribe, stick around, enjoy the podcast, and you might eventually be walking around spreading Make Peace With Life energy directly from your chest.

That's metaphysical advertising right there.

And We Have Something Special for Our Author Friends

Authors, we've got something extra for you.

Make Peace With Life works alongside our book-promotion company, Book Promotion Library, and we want to help our fellow authors while growing the podcast community.

So we're offering FREE BOOK PROMOTION to authors who subscribe to the Make Peace With Life Podcast.

Yes.

FREE.

Because authors already spend enough money trying to convince the world that the book they spent months—or years—writing actually exists.

Here's how to participate:

1. Subscribe to the Make Peace With Life Podcast on YouTube: Make Peace With Life Podcast
2. Send an email to makepeacewithlife33@gmail.com with BOOK PROMOTION in the subject line.
3. In the email, include the YouTube name you subscribed under, a book cover image, a description of your book, and the purchase link for your book.
4. Once we verify your podcast subscription, we'll set up your free book promotion and send you the details.

That's it.

No metaphysical scavenger hunt.

No secret password.

No need to align your chakras while holding your book toward the full moon.

Subscribe. Send us your information. We'll take it from there.

Come Join This Crazy Little Community

Ultimately, the Make Peace With Life Podcast isn't just about building subscriber numbers.

It's about building connection.

We want people who believe life can be meaningful without always being serious.

People who are willing to explore spirituality without pretending they have every answer.

People who believe laughter has energy.

People who enjoy asking strange questions.

People who want more happiness, adventure, connection, curiosity, and fun in their lives.

And especially people who occasionally need someone to remind them:

You are not broken.

You are living.

You are learning.

You are changing.

You are figuring things out like the rest of us.

So come listen.

Come laugh.

Come think.

Come get a little metaphysical with us.

Subscribe. Share the podcast with your friends. Help us spread the message. And let's see just how big we can make this community.

Because maybe the world doesn't need another podcast telling everyone what's wrong with them.

Maybe it needs one reminding them how much is already right.

Listen & Subscribe

Make Peace With Life Podcast on YouTube

Subscribe. Enter to win a shirt. Authors can grab some free book promotion. And most importantly... come hang out with us and find your own way to Make Peace With Life.

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No Easy Way Home:

The Road Between Series - Two 

The world ended while Grey was on fall break.

One moment, he was a college student traveling with friends. The next, the power was gone, the rules had collapsed, and staying alive demanded skills he never expected to use. As cities emptied and cruelty rushed in to fill the void, Grey learns that keeping others alive means stepping up fast.

When he crosses paths with Justice, a skilled sailor hardened by loss, survival takes a dangerous turn. Her sister has been taken by traffickers, forcing them across open water, violent towns, and lawless roads. Grey’s instincts, Justice’s command of the sea, and the strength of the people beside them are pushed to their limits as trust—and attraction—grow under pressure.

Saving her sister is only the beginning. Getting home may be even harder.

Book Two of the Road Between Series is a fast-paced, post-apocalyptic journey of loyalty, courage, and the risky hope that refuses to die.

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