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Stone of Fire (ARKANE Book 1) Kindle Edition
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When fire falls from the heavens… will the whole world burn?
Dr. Morgan Sierra, an Oxford University psychologist with a deadly past, doesn’t know the answer to that question — and doesn’t care. All she knows is that her sister and niece have been abducted, held hostage for the stone pendants that Morgan and her sister wear: two of twelve relics once owned by the original Apostles.
Forged in fire and wind, drowned in the blood of martyrs, the twelve Pentecost stones have been kept secret for two thousand years. But now the Keepers of the stones are being murdered, and the relics stolen by Thanatos, a shadowy group dedicated to remaking the world into a living Hell.
The authorities are clueless; the world lies helpless. And Thanatos grows more powerful with each stone they take.
Enter Jake Timber — agent of ARKANE, the British agency tasked with investigating the supernatural. Jake knows some of the secrets Morgan needs to save her family, but can’t stop Thanatos without her help. Only together can they stop Thanatos before the stones are captured, before Morgan’s family is murdered, and before the world is changed forever.
From flooded ruins in Italy, to religious sites in Israel, to the far reaches of Iran and Tunisia, Morgan and Jake must race across the world to find the stones before Thanatos gathers the relics and uses their power to turn Earth into a living Hell.
But every step they take brings Morgan and Jake closer to the end. To the knife edge between salvation and madness. To the moment when Morgan will have to decide whether she will save her family… or save the world.
Time is running out. Thanatos draws near. And the day of Pentecost is at hand.
Stone of Fire is the first book in the ARKANE series by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author J.F. Penn. Tap the link, grab your copy, and find the ARKANE in an adventure two thousand years in the making…
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJanuary 2, 2014
- File size1171 KB
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The idea for the Pentecost stones came from a visit to Venice where there is a huge golden mural in one of the domes of St Mark's Basilica showing the Holy Spirit descending at Pentecost. I love Venice and was there in the floods, so the scene set there came quickly. I wanted to have a book about a religious mystery that could be plausible and set in the modern day, but that also investigated what became of the Apostles, as well as weaving in my fascinations with Carl Jung and modern psychology. I found some amazing links that prove fact is stranger than fiction.
I studied the early church during my Masters degree but revisited the research in order to find out where the bones of the Apostles are kept in the present day. This search took me from India and Iran in the east, through Israel, Spain, Italy, Tunisia and eventually over to the USA. I have visited many of the locations myself as travel is an immense passion of mine. I also enjoy describing fascinating settings and believe the location should be just as interesting to the reader as the action and characters.
Dr Morgan Sierra is indeed my alter-ego. I am an experience-junkie and the adventures I send her on are such stuff as dreams are made on. I hope you enjoy the vicarious ride as much as I have done.
About the Author
J.F.Penn loves action-adventure thrillers and cites as writinginspirations James Rollins, Steve Berry, Andy McDermott, Matthew Reilly, Clive Cussler as well as Dan Brown.
Penn loves scuba diving, traveling with her backpack, Pinot Noir, reading in the hammock and constant change.
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- ASIN : B004JHYA6A
- Publisher : Curl Up Press (January 2, 2014)
- Publication date : January 2, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 1171 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 214 pages
- Lending : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,810 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author

J.F. Penn is the Award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the ARKANE action adventure thrillers, Mapwalker fantasy adventures, and the Brooke & Daniel psychological thrillers as well as other stories.
Her books weave together ancient artifacts, relics of power, international locations and adventure with an edge of the supernatural.
Jo lives in Bath, England and enjoys a nice G&T.
Find out more at www.JFPenn.com
If you enjoy books set in international locations, check out Jo's Books and Travel Podcast: www.BooksAndTravel.page
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Master in religious studies J.F. Penn is indeed also master of writing of the arcane in an authoritive voice that reverberates through this book concerning the stone relics wrought from the cave of Jesus's grave after his resurrection.
Like in many relic myths, like the spear of Longinus, the shroud of Turin and the chalice of the last supper, belief is in the mind of the individual.
Perhaps that would account for a human monster believing that the so called stones of the apostles would restore his brother's lost mind to sanity in a new Pentecost event. Or perhaps insanity just runs in his family.
Whatever the reason, it inspires the utmost in Morgan Sierra and Jake Timber to rush from one exotic locale to the other in order to find and bring together the apostle stones in order to save Morgan's sister, Faye, and Faye's little girl, Gemma.
It is an action packed thriller and nerve wracking at times, almost an Indiana Jones type of adventure at times and highly entertaining. Hats of this author. Enjoy;
Toss in some loyalty and betrayal, a three-pronged motivation to gain the stones, some sexy, fit characters and boom – you’ve got the story.
Action starts fast – a nun burned alive in Varanasi with some weird atmospheric occurrences. The Pentecost stones – scattered through the ages – hold power that can cause great good or harm. Now the race is on to gather the stones to save or destroy the day. Toss in some cool religious architecture, and super-secret agencies, a tight timeline, and there you are.
Like I said – it was entertaining. This book (and I assume the others) are travel reads and/or guilty pleasure escapism.
This book takes the reader on a roller coaster trip to some of the most intriguing religious destinations in the world. Her descriptions are vivid in a way that makes the reader cringe when silence is broken in the sacred sanctuaries. (your mom always told you to be quiet in church--right?)
Imagine the diversion of a man dangling from a rope in the high dome of an ancient cathedral. That's the kind of action J.F. Penn packs into her novels. Think Indiana Jones meets the Pope.
Clearly, Ms. Penn has first-hand knowledge of the places she romps through with her characters. This wild, action-packed, "novel" vacation is an education as well as a tour.
One drawback to reading Stone of Fire. It's a series and you'll be hooked on reading them all.
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This whole novel felt rushed and not is a tense, pacy kind of way. The dialogue was stilted, and the characters felt a little shallow, their motivations and actions questionable. And this was after I made allowances for this being a debut novel.
I really wanted to enjoy this - I admire the writer for her work helping independent authors - but I couldn't.
That she has written and produced numerous YouTube videos on the subject of novel-writing gives her huge credibility in how to craft a thriller. A small but important difference between Penn and some other self-publishers that massively adds to be enjoyment: the punctuation, continuity and spelling errors have been eliminated - she seems to understand the value of a competent edit.
I found myself riveted to the story, and she kept me hanging on until the end. Thanks Joanna for the super novels, and also for your support to the writing community.
It seems that the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ possessed some stones which have inexplicably developed magical powers. 2000 odd years later a comet is due to pass by. The stones must be gathered together to avert this, or possibly to bring it about.
Two secret societies, Arkane and Thanatos, seek the stones. So does an evil American billionaire from Arizona. Arkane has a secret multi storey underground bunker beneath Oxford which nobody knows about. Thanatos no doubt has something similar (it doesn't tell you) possibly in a volcano beneath Jerusalem (little things like geological improbability need not detain us).
Obviously designed to appeal to Dan Brown fans, inexplicably many in number. The goodies and baddies shoot at each other and the ones in red teeshirts die.














