The Devil Pulls the Strings Podcast Series
Do you like when time travel, twisted history, and secret societies collide? The Devil Pulls the Strings, described as The Librarians meet The Magicians, is an epic fantasy adventure set in modern-day Wentzville, MO, New York City, and 1813 Genoa, Italy, weaves bromance, Slavic mythology, secret societies, Paganini’s music and time travel. Boone Daniels (22) has problems, debilitating panic attack, gut-wrenching guilt, an evil spirit wendigo haunting him since age six, and now he almost killed his best friend in a joust. But when he fills in for his injured friend at a New York City gig, he ends up meeting the gig’s contact, Professor Stone, at his NYC brownstone where his body falls from the balcony and the place explodes with gun fire. Boone barely escapes but uncovers a sinister plot to perform a rare Paganini piece that summons the Devil to trap Baba Yaga and destroy modern-day New York City and finds himself on a race through time to capture the cursed melody. Along the way, a cra...
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Do you like when time travel, twisted history, and secret societies collide?
The Devil Pulls the Strings, described as The Librarians meet The Magicians, is an epic fantasy adventure set in modern-day Wentzville, MO, New York City, and 1813 Genoa, Italy. It weaves bromance, Slavic mythology, secret societies, Paganini’s music, and time travel.
Boone Daniels, 22, has problems, debilitating panic attacks, gut-wrenching guilt, an evil...
A prophecy scroll found by Scottish Warrior Laureus in the Lavender and Roses Society’s caverns and tunnels beneath New York City, is given to Professor Stone who sighs. “You know what must be done,” and gives Laureus a horn.
“But that means one of our own must die,”
Laureus takes the horn, leaves Stone, and travels through a portal to the jousting arena at the St. Louis Ren Faire in Wentzville, MO.
Enter this steampunk dark fa...
Scene opens at the same jousting arena minutes earlier.
After four years of bumps, bruises and preparation, twenty-two-year-old Boone Daniels gets the opportunity to joust his best friend Flynn Michaels. As their lance tips cross, the horses are spooked by the sound of a loud horn, and Flynn is thrown onto Boone’s lance.
The wheel of time rolls forward in this paranormal fantasy series.
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On the bus ride from Wentzville, MO to New York City, Boone has a waking dream he’s traveled back in time, to 1793 Genoa, Italy, and watches an argument between thirteen-year-old violinist, Niccolò Paganini and ten-year-old Ambrozij Serafin Sinti.
An epic time travel adventure.
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Boone arrives at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC, and with no time to walk to Stone’s brownstone, he finds a taxi. Outside Stone’s brownstone, Boone steps out of the taxi and catches sheet music for Paganini’s sonata, Le Streghe.
A girl carrying a violin case barrels into Boone. Then another body crashes onto the pavement next to them. Boone grabs the girl’s hand in an attempt to escape in the same taxi Boone exited moment...
The taxi is teleported to the address provided by the girl. And the driver demands payment in song. The taxi driver hands Boone his card, and Boone and the girl exit the taxi.
Gothic LitRPG - Literary Role Playing Game
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At a public quad in front of the NYU Stern Building, Boone finds out the girl’s name and her involvement with the murder they just witnessed.
Boone finds out the girl is Sapphire Anjou. Boone tells Sapphire they should go to Stone’s office to call the police, and are interrupted by a nearby homeless woman, a sister of a powerful witch called Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga’s sister enchants Boone to bring her food. Boone does, and she rewa...
On a bench in the quad in front of the NYU Stern Building, Sapphire shares something significant with Boone.
A small watch on Sapphire’s porkpie hat plays Paganini’s Concerto No. 1 for the violin, her mother’s favorite.
A sword and sorcery steampunk novel.
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While walking with Sapphire to Stone’s office, Boone has a waking vision, and finds himself back in 1794 Genoa, Italy, in front of an ornate fountain. There is something familiar about Mélusine.
A time travel adventure, the way of kings.
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Sapphire and Boone go to Professor Stone’s Office in the Steinhardt Building to call the police and find Paganini’s sheet music. They find an unpleasant surprise on a copy machine. A commotion inside Stone’s office draws their attention. Can they escape the gunfire?
Game of Thrones dark fantasy.
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Sapphire shows Boone Space 879A, a place to hide from Sinti’s men.
But after the door shuts behind them, they are in for more terrifying trouble.
Boone knows the wendigo comes when he is in the dark or tight spaces.
Folklore magic and gothic horror.
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Sapphire suggests Boone and she hide from Sinti’s men in her class and Paganini competition.
Music and magic in a steampunk fantasy.
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Sapphire tells Wickhamby they need to speak in private, so she can tell him Professor Stone is dead, and Wickhamby shares critical information with Boone and Sapphire.
Contemporary humor for teens and young adults
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Boone and Sapphire take a NY Black Top Taxi back to the French Embassy.
Time travel books fiction
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Boone and Sapphire have a run-in with the French Ambassador’s Executive Assistance, Miss Page (27), who’s not happy to see Sapphire and is the bearer of bad news.
Hell and devil, sword and sorcery
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A nightmare wakes Boone. Upon his lips the name Rumsey Playfield. The words spill out of his mouth. Sweat covers his body, and his stomach’s a flip-flopping mess, and the sense something is wrong. And then his head fills - images of injured people. Lots of injured people. People full of dread and fear.
Dark fantasy in a fast paced urban fiction
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Outside Stone’s brownstone, Boone and Sapphire encounter Detective Rizos investigating Stone’s murder.
Page turning story in audio, a funny urban fiction
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Boone and Sapphire sneak into Stone’s study to search for Paganini’s missing Le Streghe sheet music.
A steampunk fantasy book in audio
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Oh-oh. Sinti’s men enter Stone’s brownstone, and the only escape for Boone and Sapphire - The roof.
LitRPG and the way of kings collide in this fast paced steampunk action novel.
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Boone and Sapphire find the entrance to the Lavender and Roses Society. “Mr. Daniels, you might want to switch to high gear.”
Time travel and gothic fantasy
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