Richard Levangie

In a medieval world, where magic has been bled dry, Galen Sinclair, a 17-year-old Nova Scotian karate prodigy, must answer these questions as he assumes the throne of a seaside kingdom before a threatened invasion. Together, with alchemy—swiped from Earth and wielded by the wizard Erasmus—they usher in an era where women and the underclasses rise to the greatness of myth and legend.

Adopted into a mixed family, thirteen-year-old Jacob Jollimore is having the worst summer of his life helping to care for an elderly Vietnamese woman that he ran into and injured while trying to escape a bully. But a hundred-year old letter hidden in a bureau in the Edwardian hotel his parents are renovating sends him on a treasure hunt that will require him to think like Sherlock Holmes and just may prove to be everyone’s salvation.