matthew van vlack

The end of the world isnt nigh…its high! And the fate of all humanity rests in the hands of five Los Angeles stoners — like literally, dude! These reluctant heroes were chosen by the Virgin Mary herself, and entrusted with the Augur, the worlds most powerful object. Its been stolen from a secret vault beneath the Vatican, by a magical thief hired by the Holy Mother and the Norse god Odin.----When the Augur suddenly activates itself everyone from Homeland Security, to paramilitary Jehovahs Witnesses, to Seventh-day Adventists, to a gun-toting Templar priest from the Vatican, descends upon an L.A. medical marijuana dispensary called O.H.M. looking for it. Terrified, confused and maybe just a bit stoned, our unlikely heroes must unlock the secret of the Augur before all Hell really breaks loose. -----Trading OHM is the first part of the Augurspell Mystery, a satirical urban fantasy epic that challenges modern man's terror of a self-made Armageddon. No political, religious or social institution is left unscathed by the unleashing of the enigmatic Augur and the hapless heroes, dictatorial villains and questionable protectors who cross continents, timelines, basic human decency and every government on Earth, to save humanity from the one force against which it has absolutely no hope...itself.