(Ebook) A Practice in Truth by C.L. Roman

(Ebook) A Practice in Truth by C.L. Roman

Fairy tales have to come from somewhere...When Professor Gant Santos hires Char to recover stolen property, she thinks it's just a routine legal matter. But then she discovers that the property is a glass sarcophagus thousands of years old, and her employer is the angel she's been dreaming about for weeks. The director of the Gainesville Museum of Art, Science, and History is preparing to retire in style, and he doesn't care what it costs. He's been gathering illegal magickal artifacts from every corner of the globe for years, and now he plans to auction them off to the worst parahumans in three realms. When he's offered the Clochroi, a ruby soul stone with the power to reveal the truth about any person or situation, he jumps at the chance to add millions to his retirement fund. But the stone has secrets. Not only is it unfettered – owned only by the person who holds it at the moment – but it isn't really a stone at all. The ruby's true...