House of Gold - Softcover

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Bud Macfarlane, thirty-something, grew up in New Jersey with his nine sisters and one brother. He is the founder and director of CatholiCity and the Mary Foundation (the largest producer of Catholic audio tapes in the U.S.A.). He received a degree in history from the University of Notre Dame in 1984. He is the proud father of Jude, Buddy, and Xavier and lives with his bride Bai in a suburb of Cleveland. He is a founding member of the Catholic Marketing Network. The "MI" after his name stands for Militia of the Immaculata, or Knights of Immaculata, a lay association founded by his hero, Saint Maximilian Kolbe. He is a member of the MI National Board of Directors, has been given the title "Official Promoter of the MI." He plans to write one or two new novels every year for the rest of his life. His father, Bud Sr., is one of the best-known and best-loved speakers on the topic of Marian Apparitions in the U.S.

His interests include: watching lots of movies, playing with his kids, pickup basketball, the Boston Red Sox, and the Internet.

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The world has come to a screeching halt. The lights are out. And a desperate father is a long, long way from home.

Buzz Woodward. Alcoholism. Divorce. Attempted suicide. Buzz had been through it all and has lived to tell. Now he is married with children, pushing forty, out of shape, living hand-to-mouth, and finds himself beginning an impossible journey against impossible odds.

Sam and Ellie Fisk. Ten years earlier, when Buzz's best friends fell in love, they also discovered a greater love--their love for the Catholic Church. To outsiders, Sam and Ellie had it all: a perfect marriage, a talented son, friends, faith, wealth, status, success. But now, an unrelenting force of darkness threatens to tear them apart forever.

Mark Johnson. He's a big, strong, brave FBI agent, the ultimate tough guy cruising through middle age while enjoying his adoring family. Mark and his wife Maggie are already looking forward to a satisfying retirement when he detects a dangerous technological storm on the horizon. But that is okay...Mark is ready for anything. Or is he?

With House of Gold, America's favorite Catholic novelist returns to the riveting, apocalyptic storytelling which captured the hearts of countless readers in his explosive classic, Pierced By A Sword, while retainging the intimate, realistic characters who charmed, surprised, and ultimately swept readers away in his second novel, Conceived Without Sin. Join Bud Macfarlane as he takes you on a gripping spiritual odyssey that will reverberate through your soul long after you turn the final page.

Discover a new world. Change your life forever.