Personal Effects: Sword of Blood

This is the second of two preview-only episodes of Personal Effects: Dark Art, the groundbreaking "transmedia" novel available in bookstores now. Features chapters 3 and 4. Written by J.C. Hutchins and Jordan Weisman; read by J.C. Hutchins.

This is the first of two preview-only episodes of Personal Effects: Dark Art, the groundbreaking "transmedia" novel available in bookstores now. Features chapters 1 and 2. Written by J.C. Hutchins and Jordan Weisman; read by J.C. Hutchins.

Zach pursues the Bloodsword. Secrets are revealed. The final episode of Personal Effects: Sword of Blood.

Zach unearths the grand design of nine ... and receives a history lesson from Rachael.

Zach takes a call. Hen reveals her knowledge about The Charred.

Zach has a heart to heart with Rachael ... and then goes on an unexpected road trip.

Zach meets up with his "tribe" -- girlfriend Rachael, brother Lucas, longtime friend Ida "Eye" -- and receives a strange phone call.

Zach encounters a stranger ... and meets Hen, a relative of his patient, Gertrude "Spindle" Spindler.

Brinkvale Psychiatric Hospital art therapist Zach Taylor is endlessly curious, perhaps to a fault. When his cheerful elderly patient Gertrude "Spindle" Spindler completes her latest quilt and informs Zach that a 30-year-old "grand design of nine" has just concluded, Zach's curiosity is piqued ... and he soon embarks on a quest to unwind the meaning of the woman's cryptic phrase.