The Amber Garden by Cynthea Masson - ISBN: 9781770412750
Paperback
The final instalment in the Alchemists’ Council trilogy seees eternal conflicts between the Council and Rebel Branches escalate. Secrets about time travel manipulation and truths about alchemical children are discovered, and a controversial solution to save the dimension is put forward.

The Amber Garden

The Alchemists' Council, Book 3

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  • Paperback

    300 pages

  • Release Date

    24 March 2020

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Summary

The stunning and beautifully crafted conclusion to The Alchemists’ Council series

In Book Three of The Alchemists’ Council trilogy, eternal conflicts between the Council and Rebel Branch escalate. Secrets about time-travel manipulation are revealed, uncomfortable truths about alchemical children are discovered, and Council dimension itself begins to disintegrate. Amidst this fallout, the Amber Garden dissolves, conjoined pairs suffer torturous separation, alchemists die in the process, and Cedar is banished to the outside world where she endures a living death within her conjoined partner.

Efforts of both alchemists and rebels to resolve the dissolution of Council and Flaw dimensions prove futile. People of the outside world experience ever-increasing political turmoil and the risk of environmental collapse. Mercifully, the alchemists have woven a thread of hope into an alchemically inscribed book, which they release into the outside world with the purpose of attracting new Initiates to Council. At first, Initiate Virginia appears to be a disrespectful interloper with whom Jaden loathes to work. However, their combined scribal efforts prove astoundingly powerful — so much so that they are sent through time to inscribe critical messages into ancient manuscripts. Events associated with one such manuscript lead Cedar to propose a solution to the dimensional fallout: all remaining alchemists must permanently vacate Council dimension.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781770412750
ISBN-10:1770412751
Author:Cynthea Masson
Publisher:ECW Press,Canada
Imprint:ECW Press,Canada
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:300
Release Date:24 March 2020
Weight:428g
Dimensions:127mm x 197mm
Series:The Alchemists' Council
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The Amber Garden by Cynthea Masson - ISBN: 9781770412750
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Critics Review

The Amber Garden and the two earlier titles are highly original, full of complex and intricate worldbuilding with a complicated plot that spans centuries and involves time travel and multiple circular timelines.” — Canadian Review of Materials
“Written in dense prose well-suited to this style of large-scale fantastic history, The Amber Garden has a pleasing narrative inevitability that heads toward a not-entirely expected conclusion. The alchemical texts, the efforts of scribes to make necessary alterations, all the details of Council and Flaw dimensions — along with the underlying concerns about free will — are a compelling foundation for the story.” — Booklist

About The Author

Cynthea Masson

Cynthea Masson is a professor in the English Department at Vancouver Island University, where she teaches writing and literature courses. Her fiction includes The Elijah Tree, a novel combining theories of mysticism with issues of faith. Her recent trilogy, The Alchemists’ Council, is anchored within esoteric mysteries of medieval alchemy.

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