The Legend of  
Zamiel Zimbalist
(Book Two in
The Connedim)

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At the age of five, Zachary Zimbalist meets a Mexican ghost named Maria who tells him that the nicho - a small alcove in the wall of his Tucson living room - is a doorway to another dimension. But by the time he’s twelve years old, Zachary has forgotten about Maria. He’s lonely and bored, and the only friend he has is his cat, Eddy Aby. In an impulsive attempt to keep a local gang from beating him up, Zachary agrees to get a tattoo and unwittingly becomes marked with the Rune of the Scatterers. The Scatterers are malicious souls who love to change history and create chaos in their wake. They’ve decided Zachary and his powers belong to them.

Maria reappears in the nick of time to whisk him off to the timeless land of Connedim - the Connecting Dimension between past, present, and future. In Connedim, Zachary finds out Eddy Aby is really an Egyptian Pharaoh and the founder of the Interhistorical Alliance. Helped by his ghostly mentor Maria, Zachary becomes an apprentice in the Alliance, defending history from the Scatterers through his powers of parlance. Between mastering his parlance and dodging the Scatterers, Zachary finally learns why he alone is marked with the Scatterers’ Rune. For only Zachary has the power to save the history of the Alliance itself!

“The main home of the Alliance is a place called Craton,” Maria explained. “Craton is a lot like the Grand Canyon here in Arizona. It’s usually warm, and there are lots of big cliffs and plateaus. The Red River at the bottom of the canyon is cold, so it’s perfect for swimming when you get too hot.”

About THE SCATTERERS' RUNE

A simple pattern of lines swirled around itself in a strangely hypnotic spiral, deteriorating into scattered fragments on one side. It was somehow both beautiful and horrible at the same time. The longer Zachary looked at it, the more he felt himself drawn to it, drawn into it. The Rune almost pulsed off the page. “This one,” he heard himself say from a distance. “I want this one.”

“The Scatterers love chaos and pain, and the power they have over others,” Eddy Aby said softly. “They’ll do anything they can to distort history. Their power of parlance warps into fallacy, which is the power of miscommunication and manipulation. Many Scatterers are gang leaders. Some are even terrible tyrants, such as Adolf Hitler. The Scatterers leave their Rune behind as a sign of their success.”

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"No. Eddy Aby told me you can't take me against my will, and I won't agree to go with you—ever!"

The Scatterer's voice was amused. "My dear ZZ, you've already agreed to be one of us. You got yourself tattooed with the Scatterers' Rune."

"They made me do that," Zachary protested. "I didn't want the tattoo."

She kept laughing. "You paid with money out of your own pocket. You chose the Rune out of the book. You said 'I want that one.'"

She was right, and Zachary stared bleakly at her. "I didn't know what it was," he finally said.

She smiled at him. "Somewhere deep inside yourself you knew the Rune. You're a Scatterer at heart, ZZ. Want to know why?"

Zachary looked at her helplessly.

"Because of your father."

"What about my father?" he whispered.

"He doesn't have to get hurt, you know." Her voice softened. "You can go back to that single day and change history so he doesn't end up with brain damage. That's the beauty of the Rune."

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