title: The Alchemy of Time
author: Sebastian de Assis
description: SEBASTIAN DE ASSIS is a nationally recognized writer and international teacher who conducts workshops, seminars, and presentations based on his concept of Power Aging. A former traditional educator and the author of the acclaimed Teachers of the World, Unite!, hes transitioned to becoming an independent teacher and writer focusing on human development and self-empowerment. He has traveled extensively through Europe, South and North America, Africa, and the United States. He has lived and worked in Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, and Brazil. A current resident of the state of Oregon, hes lived in California, New Mexico, and Hawaii where he spent what he deems to be the best ten years of his life. An alumnus of the University of Hawaii and California State University, he is a bona fide expert in cross-cultural communications, multiculturalism, and promoting diversity. He is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and French. When he is not writing or reading in his personal library while listening to Johann Sebastian Bach or Miles Davis, he is probably on the tennis court competing with the same passion he devotes to everything he engages in. He is available to speak at events, teach classes, workshops, and seminars. For more information about him visit www.sebastiandeassis.com.
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  # Ice and Blood
  
  
  ### American Alchemy Book 2
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Oliver Altair
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### Striking Books
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Sheriff Tiberius Tibbetts watched the dimming sunlight through the misted
  windows of the Silver Moon. The sky darkened sooner every passing day. But how
  to tell the difference between yesterday and today? The day after or before?
  His days remained rayless, as somber as the memories he longed to forget. Yet
  he still dreamed of magic and death, of miracles liquefied and bottled. Of
  alchemy.
  
  
  He’d experienced betrayal, and seduction, and love, without a heart ever
  beating too close to his own. He’d embraced loneliness like a wolf embraces
  the night. Sarah Anne. Mountain Iris. He lost them. He chose to lose them. No
  matter if he made his peace with the loss or not. They’d never return. No one
  who left Souls Well ever would. If they did, they’d find nothing but a tumulus
  of brown buildings drowning in sno