{"product_id":"the-telling","title":"The Telling","description":"\u003cp\u003eA prophet never loses his calling  only his way. Disfigured with a hideous scar from his stepmother  Zeph Walker lives his life in seclusion  cloistering himself in a ramshackle bookstore on the outskirts of town. But Zeph is also blessed with a gift  an uncanny ability to foresee the future to know peoples deepest sins and secrets. He calls it the Telling  but he has abandoned this gift to a life of solitude  unbelief  and despair until two detectives escort him to the county morgue where he finds his own body lying on the gurney.  On the northern fringes of Death Valley  the city of Endurance is home to llama ranches  abandoned mines  roadside attractions...and the mythical ninth gate of hell. Now  forced to investigate his own murder  Zeph discovers something even more insidious behind the urban legends and small-town eccentricities. Early miners unearthed a megalith  a sacred site where spiritual and physical forces converge and where an ancient subterranean presence broods. And only Zeph can stop it.  But the scar on Zephs face is nothing compared to the wound on his soul. For not only has he abandoned his gift and renounced heaven  but it was his own silence that spawned the evil. Can he overcome his own despair in time to seal the ninth gate of hell?  His words unlocked something deadly  And now the silence is killing them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44620801998901,"sku":"ByrdShop_1616386940","price":59.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781616386948.jpg?v=1771057383","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-telling","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}