Richard Levangie

In a medieval world where magic has slowly ebbed away, Galen Sinclair, a 17-year-old karate prodigy from Nova Scotia, must decide who lives and dies as he assumes the throne of a crumbling seaside kingdom before a threatened invasion. Together, with alchemy—swiped from Earth and wielded by the wizard Erasmus—they create a new Age where women and the underclasses rise to the greatness of myth and legend. (Read Chapter One)

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.