A World Lost to the Collision of Politics,
Passion, and Piety

What happens when politics, passion, and piety collide? The resulting worldwide cataclysm obliterates a mighty nation and nearly destroys the world.

Welcome to the website that provides background for the Green Stone of Healing® speculative epic, a unique blend of action-adventure, alternate history, palace intrigue, the paranormal, and undying romance.

This serialized fiction saga chronicles how state backing for an exclusionary religion leads to global destruction that sweeps away all traces of a mighty island nation called Azgard.

Four generations of strong-willed women inherit a mysterious gem revealed to mend broken bones and broken hearts, protect against human and natural assaults, and render its wearers undetectable.

These courageous protagonists use their jewel to offer a loving, inclusive alternative to theocrats who persecute those who do not look like them or share their beliefs.

Readers who become fond of these characters will be delighted that they reincarnate on their spiritual sojourns, affirming that not even death can divide lovers and loved ones (or enemies).

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About the Author

Under the byline Candace Talmadge, the author of the Green Stone of Healing® series is a columnist syndicated by North Star Writers Group

Her career as a professional writer began in 1976. She has written for numerous media that include Adweek , Business Week , the Dallas Times Herald , Forbes , the International Herald Tribune , The New York Times , and Reuters America.

She is familiar with the intimate link between spirituality, energy, and individual and collective healing. In 1999, she published a non-fiction book about emotional and spiritual healing resolution based on the Sunan method of working in the energy of human consciousness. In this book, she provides an expanded definition of energy that demonstrates the connection between matter, spirit, mind, and heart.

To write her fantasy series, the author delved into her own past lives and those of her family, friends, clients, and acquaintances. The fictionalized result is the series presented in this website.

The author resides in Texas with her partner and editor. Readers may contact her here.