Resources: The Secret Guardians Audiobooks
CAST OF CHARACTERS
JIAN (zhyen) BYRNE - born 1982, Ann Arbor, Michigan; daughter of Sean and Ming; raised by her grandmother, Mo La in Belfast, Northern Ireland
KAELIN BYRNE - born 1980, Belfast, Northern Ireland; son of Sean and Ming, brother of Jian
SEAN BYRNE - born 1950, Lhasa, Tibet, raised in Belfast; father of Jian and Kaelin, husband of Ming
LIN DAO-MING (“Ming”) - born 1952, Taipei, Taiwan; mother of Jian and Kaelin, wife of Sean
MO LA BYRNE - born 1927, Lhasa, Tibet; Sean’s mother, grandmother of Jian, wife of Tiernan Byrne
LUCAS SONGELLA (“Luke Song”) - born 1976, Laredo, Texas; husband of Jian
ANNA RUSAKOV - Russian-born friend of Jian
TATIANA RUSAKOV (“Tanya”) - Anna’s mother
CLAIRE MALLOY - friend of Anna
TOM ADAMS - friend of Anna
EAMON DOHERTY - friend of Anna
MIEKE DEVRIES - friend of Claire
KJERSTIN LINDSTROM - Swedish friend of Mieke
SRI RAJU - Indian guru
ANDERS, AMAR and LALITA - followers of Raju
ALIK RUSAKOV - Anna’s father
ALEXEI and MISCHA RUSAKOV - Anna’s younger brothers
JENNA POETT - journalist; friend of Sean
WREN BOWEN - Welsh owner of Bowen estate, director of Operation Rescue
SOFIY TARASENKO - Ukrainian girl working for Operation Rescue
NASH DAVIS - American security contractor working for Operation Rescue
NIALL BROWNE and JOSHUA JAMESON - Operation Rescue security personnel
IMANI and ISAIAH FREEMAN - retired physicians active in the East West movement
ABRAHAM GOLD - professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; mentor to Sean Byrne
LIN LIHUA (“Lihua”) - born 1950, Taipei, Taiwan; sister of Ming
LIN YUN - cousin of Jian and Kaelin
HAI PIN (“Candy”) - bar girl, Taipei, Taiwan; friend of Lihua
CONOR FINNEGAN - Chief Superintendent, Police Service of Northern Ireland
ADRIAN BEST - Inspector, Police Service of Northern Ireland
SERHAT - sex trafficker in Istanbul, Turkey
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Though the stories Patrick Rogers writes are imagined in made-up worlds with fictional characters, they are inspired by the time-honored virtues at the heart of all true spiritual paths.
Patrick’s interest in mystics, masters and saints goes way back. Earlier in life he came to believe that we are first and foremost spiritual beings, each with a unique divine destiny to discover.
Patrick has worked as a reporter for a daily newspaper, the editor of a national mental health publication and as a writing instructor for an online university. The Secret Guardians books are his first novels. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.
Visit him at www.patrick-rogers.com, www.thesecretguardians.com and on YouTube at his Divine Destiny channel.
ABOUT THE NARRATOR
Nora Kelly Lester is a young Irish actor with experience in theatre, film and improvised comedy. She is a graduate of University College Dublin and has trained at the Theatre Resource Centre in Toronto. Nora’s warm, heartfelt reading of The Secret Guardians novels gives beautiful voice to the story’s main character, Irish orphan Jian Byrne. Nora can be reached here.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to the Secret Guardians audiobooks. If you would be so kind as to leave a review, I would be most grateful.
As a self-published writer, reviews are precious to me, as they are the best means I have of guiding new readers and listeners to my books. So I would very much appreciate it if you would take a moment to leave a review on this book’s Amazon page. The review can be as short as you like.
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Thanks again,
Patrick
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IN THE SECRET GUARDIANS SERIES
The Girl Who Walked into the Light
Irish orphan Jian Byrne is beautiful, gifted and lost. She can see people’s auras, travel out-of-body to realms on high, and remember perfectly. But her missing family is a wound that has never healed. When her grandmother dies, Jian falls hard. She is lured into the local drug scene. A rescue begins.
One night while she sleeps, a fiery being appears and reminds her of the mission she was born to fulfill. She is guided to great friends of light, comes face to face with diabolical takers, and resurrects an almost hopeless quest to find her family.
The Girl Who Walked into the Light begins the story of a humble girl’s journey of rediscovery of who and what she really is. And what she is meant to become.
Buy The Girl Who Walked into the Light here.
The Girl Who Invoked Fire
The Girl Who Invoked Fire continues the odyssey of Jian Byrne, an unassuming but gifted Irish orphan who bears the scars of lifetimes. Guided by unseen forces, Jian is shown visions of her mother as a young woman, which spurs her search into her family’s disappearance and beyond into life’s profound secrets.
She meets a survivor of human trafficking and in a dreamlike journey into a realm of memory relives the girl’s rescue. She joins the battle against the traffickers, and the evil that ensouls them.
Buy The Girl Who Invoked Fire here.
The Girl Who Kept the Flame
Orphan Jian Byrne finally locates her long-missing brother, now a soldier in the fight against human trafficking. But will he believe she is his real sister? And what of her parents? Could they still be alive?
The Girl Who Kept the Flame traces Jian’s battle against takers who enslave innocents, as well as her own struggle to heal her scarred soul. And it brings Jian’s search for her family, and for the truth of her own being, to an extraordinary and surprising conclusion.
Buy The Girl Who Kept the Flame here.
Lessons of Light
Lessons of Light taken from the Girl Who Walked into the Light reveals the behind-the-scenes spiritual path hero Jian Byrne travels as she journeys through earthly realms past and present, as well as etheric and akashic worlds that were once far beyond her imagination.
COPYRIGHT
Though set in locales and historical events that are factual, this is a work of fiction of the author’s imagination.
Copyright © 2022 by Patrick J. Rogers. All rights reserved.
No part of this audiobook may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system or information storage, or transmitted in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or photocopying means, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
Published by New Summit Press, Bozeman, Montana
Cover design by Raphael Rogers and Damonza
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
When I began chronicling Jian’s story a decade ago, I did not know where it would lead. Yes, it was rather foolish to set out on a literary quest with little more than a vague idea of the sign posts along the way and what awaited at journey’s end. Yet I began. Simultaneously, I searched for direction in the collective wisdom of other writers who had traveled the fabled hero’s journey road before me.
But as with Jian’s schooling, book learning was not enough. My lessons had to be taken directly from one remarkable editor who put her heart and soul into the project. For without Amber Helt of Rooted in Writing these books would be a pale reflection of what they are today. Amber’s excellent assistant editor Kristen Bickerstaff also jumped in at the end of the project to get the story to the finish line.
I also gratefully acknowledge the editorial assistance of Carla Groenewegen and Timothy Connor, as well as the invaluable contributions of Simone Guridi Muñoz, George Makris, Ana Luque, Sebastian Castro, Florecita Rogers, Linda Cruse-Robin, Keith and Neena Stevens, Christina Sarlo, and especially my dear wife, Celeste, for her gentle care and patience along the way. Thanks also to Zoya Reed and Yaroslavna Sanislo for their translations of English phrases into Russian and Ukrainian. And without Simone’s work on thesecretguardians.com website we would not be able to deliver books to readers.
Finally, I would like to thank my son Raphael Rogers for his inspirational cover of Jian walking toward the light among wintry pines, as well as the staff at Damonza who embellished the original cover and carried its theme flawlessly through the cover designs of the second and third books of the series.