false 5932984 3 <B>A highly original supernatural thriller blending magic, science, martial arts, and the greatest desire of all: to live forever</B><BR><BR> Mia Lockheart has a secret. Her mother was a Keeper, as was her grandmother—women who were warriors, healers, and protectors. As Mia practices her craft among the boxers and martial artists of South London, and begins a romance with her childhood friend, the fighter Nick Duffy, she has no idea that a man who calls himself “Dragonfly” is watching from the shadows.<BR><BR> Adrian Ashton is a brilliant scientist, an expert in the breaking field of biophoton emissions from cells within the human body. He is also a skilled martial artist—and a modern-day vampire. With the aid of the enigmatic <I>Book of Life and Death</I>, written in the thirteenth century by the legendary Chinese physician Zhang Sanfeng, he preys on other martial artists and drains them of their chi—the vital energy that flows through the body.<BR><BR> Mia finds herself drawn to his dark genius, but when he targets Nick as his next victim, she is forced to choose between the two men. It becomes a fight to the death in which love is both the greatest weakness and the biggest prize. 6105428 2 4 2009 Keeper of Light and Dust total:45|5:8|4:11|3:14|2:11|1:1| 45 149 129 15 0 1 false false Sun Mar 15 14:24:52 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 14:26:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 06 20:27:41 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 20:27:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 07:48:40 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 06:10:48 -0700 2009 Keeper of Light and Dust is an elegant fusion of martial arts, tattooing, Eastern philosophy and medicine, and biophoton and chronobiological science. Mostert deftly meshes information with characterization and plot, and there is never a dull moment in this spiritual thriller.
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