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\"\"<\/a>It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour<\/a><\/strong><\/span> book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old…or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

You never know when I might play a wild card on you!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Today’s Wild Card author is: <\/strong><\/div>\n
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Mike Duran<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

\u00a0and the book:<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\u00a0The Telling<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Realms (May 15, 2012)<\/span><\/div>\n
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***Special thanks to Althea Thompson | Publicity Coordinator, Charisma House | <\/strong>
\nCharisma Media for sending me a review copy.***<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Mike Duran was a finalist in Faith in Fiction’s inaugural short story contest and was chosen as one of ten authors to be published in Infuze Magazine\u2019s 2005 print anthology. He is author of the short story \u201cEn Route to Inferno,\u201d which appeared in Coach\u2019s Midnight Diner: Back from the Dead edition, and received the Editor\u2019s Choice award for his creative nonfiction essay titled \u201cThe Ark,\u201d published in the Summer 2.3 Issue of Relief Journal. In between blogs, he also writes a monthly column for Novel Journey and has served as editor on the Midnight Diner\u2019s editorial team. Duran is an ordained minister and lives with his wife and four grown children in Southern California.<\/p>\n

Visit the author’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SHORT BOOK DESCRIPTION:<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>A prophet never loses his calling, only his way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Disfigured with a hideous scar from his stepmother, Zeph Walker lives his life in seclusion, cloistering himself in a ramshackle bookstore on the outskirts of town. But Zeph is also blessed with a gift\u2014an uncanny ability to foresee the future,to know peoples\u2019 deepest sins and secrets. He calls it the Telling, but he has abandoned this gift to a life of solitude, unbelief, and despair\u2014until two detectives escort him to the county morgue where he finds his own body lying on the gurney.<\/p>\n

On the northern fringes of Death Valley, the city of Endurance is home to llama ranches, abandoned mines, roadside attractions…and the mythical ninth gate of hell. Now, forced to investigate his own murder, Zeph discovers something even more insidious behind the urban legends and small-town eccentricities. Early miners unearthed a megalith\u2014asacred site where spiritual and physical forces converge and where an ancient subterranean presence broods. And only Zeph can stop it.<\/p>\n

But the scar on Zeph\u2019s face is nothing compared to the wound on his soul. For not only has he abandoned his gift and renounced heaven, but it was his own silence that spawned the evil. Can he overcome his own despair in time to seal the ninth gate of hell?<\/p>\n

His words unlocked something deadly,<\/strong><\/p>\n

And now the silence is killing them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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