When the world collapses from a Golden Age into one of chaos and strife, mankind’s salvation lies in the hands of eternal Emissaries― guardians chosen to protect the secrets of a sacred, ancient civilization and to guide humanity back to enlightenment even as its darkest hour approaches.A timeless tale of love reborn through the ages.Marcus and Theron are two lovers bound by an eternal and … eternal and unshakable bond. As a series of catastrophic events nearly destroys their world, the two along with a chosen few become Emissaries destined, over the course of 13,000 years and through many reincarnations, to lead humanity into an era of peace and prosperity as foretold by the Elders of their race. But the forces of evil have taken possession of one man, Helghul, who relentlessly pursues Marcus and Theron through time, determined to destroy them and ruin all hope for salvation. The Emissary tracks Marcus’s epic adventure across centuries of human civilization to present day, where envoys of darkness gather threatening to bury the life-giving secrets of Atitala forever.
Good and evil come to blows and the future of mankind hangs in the balance.
“For every soul there is a theme, a path that must be followed, lessons that must be learned…”
Veitch and DeFazio’s award-winning debut novel deftly blends elements of a fantasy- adventure with historical fiction to create an unforgettable, fateful tale of eternal love, undying devotion, betrayal, suffering and the hope that binds us all.
What happens when two passionate writer-artists fall in love and decide to make an uncommon life together? The One Great Year novel series is just one of the awesome possibilities!
Born and raised in the Vancouver area, Rene DeFazio is an actor, screenwriter and producer with numerous film and television roles to his credit, as well as countless commercials and print ads. After spending many years backpacking and filming, Rene drew upon an abundance of unusual and exciting experiences to create One Great Year: The Emissary. His tireless research and firsthand knowledge of exotic locations, customs, sights and scents helped to bring this epic story to life. Rene was awarded an Empowered Writers Award at the 2014 World International Peace festival in Vancouver.
Tamara Veitch was also awarded an Empowered Writers Award at the 2014 World International Peace festival in Vancouver. Since an early age Tamara knew that she was a writer. She studied English and General Arts at Simon Fraser University and has had articles published in Guided Synergy Magazine, Awareness Magazine (Southern California), and Mosaic Magazine. Tamara is an experienced mural artist, teacher and public speaker and has toured with Rene presenting the groundbreaking research and discoveries behind their novels.
The One Great Year Series has been developed over nine years and has been optioned to be developed into a film or television series.
The authors are currently completing the second and third books in the One Great Year Series and hope for Book II to be released early 2019.
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The story doesn’t primarily revolve around the lead role originally known as Marcus, but around the message that the lead is trying to convey. The central message of the story is about the higher conscious of a being and a role that humans from the Golden Age play in guiding the world in this direction. These chosen humans are called Emissaries. The first chapter begins with a current day scenario of a blogger, just a normal guy. Right after this, the story begins to traverse back and forth in time where Marcus has lived several lives and was reborn over the different ages and has varied life experiences with each of these lives. The start of his life is in 11,600 BC. Here, you learn about the highly evolved humans of the Golden Era and the transition from awakened beings to acceptance of the decline in conscious and eventually, the decline of it. The story touches upon several new enlightening concepts like concept of inner earth and outer earth. The outer earth was descending from golden age to iron age. This would bring chaos to the world and focus on superficial and insignificant things instead of positive learning. The book also focuses on a certain powerful metal- Atlantium. Atlantium is a substance that, if harnessed right, could be utilized to its full potential for the benefit of the world, but if it falls into to the wrong hands a.k.a the hands of humans from iron age, it could be dangerous and destructive. While the elders want to protect this substance, the younger ones believer that they could delay the iron age and somehow manage to use the atlantium. The children go to the inner world only to fall into a continuous pits of difficulty which completely changes their lives in the most unimaginable way. Over a period of time, you watch Marcus go through several miseries in each life and your heart aches every time. The three children gets separated and over the course of the book, their lives intertwine in the most bizarre way and I can’t imagine what Marcus must have gone through. Finally, the book ends with a cliff hanger but with an expected twist.
Tamara Veitch & Rene DeFazio are like the new age prophets. This book touches several ancient Indian concepts, cosmic powers, telepathic powers and physic powers that will just make your mind explode with information. The vast knowledge and conceptual apprehension this novel provided, is truly something that I appreciate. The amount of effort and research put into this by them is noteworthy. Although “The Emissary” is a fantasy novel, Tamara and Rene references to several ancient concepts is particularly interesting and you truly begin to understand and make sense of it all. I was taken back in time and into a mystical world while reading this book and I was truly engrossed. The ability they have to be vividly descriptive and allow their readers to picturize everything is simply amazing. This book made me realize how we are driven by and towards materialism and insignificant things while we must be focusing on much greater calling. I believe that they might have actually manage to wake up my snoozed spiritual self. The idea of possessing empathy and to live with compassion instead of selfish desires is something to think about. The ability to look beyond yourself and be a part of something superior to the betterment of the society is something we all need to thrive for and Tamara and Rene are making a point to get this message across. With so much suffering in the world and so little hope left, books like this makes you believe in mankind again. To know that there are still people out there who believe in this purpose is a calming thought.
I want to see what Tamara and Rene have to bring to the table in their sequel because it focuses on current day life scenario and I can’t wait to learn something new from it.
The Emissary is a novel written by Tamara Veitch and Rene DeFazio and I have been lucky enough to have been gifted a copy of this novel from the authors via Voracious Readers Only.
This novel has an epic storyline that traverses thousands of years, starting in the golden age and ending in present day. This story centres around three main characters, Marcus, Theron and Helghul who all become emissaries and head out into the world after the collapse of their civilisation in the golden age. Marcus and Theron are lovers who are bound to love each other for all of eternity, and Helghul makes a choice and becomes an emissary for evil and chaos.
The Emissary is a book about reincarnation, which has these three characters crossing paths through out history, with only Marcus and Helghul being able to recall all the lives that they have lived. Theron is oblivious to their history but does feel the connection and bond whenever her life crosses paths with Marcus, but is unaware of why.
I found it easy to read, but it is not a light read. I really enjoyed their take on how reincarnation might present as time goes on. These three characters do cross paths, but not always, they often live a life without ever meeting. This story gave me a lot to thing about, I am not a believer in reincarnation so I have never really given it any thought at all, and I will admit it has me considering what that would be like, to live again and again.
This story crosses several genres in my opinion, it is a fantasy, historical fiction, romance and fiction. This story has a star-crossed lover thread that runs through it and holds the story together. This thread also has a love triangle element where Helghul wants Theron, or maybe just doesn’t want Marcus to have her.
It took me a little while to get into this book, but once it took off, I was very much hooked and liked the anticipation of wondering what life was going to bring to this trio. The authors had my emotions going at full tilt, which always indicates that I am enjoying what I am reading, as I was identifying with the characters I was reading about.
The Emissary is the first book in a series, and I will definitely be looking for the next book to find out what happens next to these three.
I would not recommend this book for young readers as there are some very adult topics touched on. I would definitely recommend for mature readers with and interest in historical fiction and fans of stories about star crossed lovers.