The magic isn't over. Neither is the danger.

City dweller Gabe Common, seventeen and a high school dropout, has just moved with his mother to Chumsville, South Dakota, a speck in the eye of humanity. With a population of around three hundred people, Gabe is resigned to spending his summer studying online and watching the wheat grow. It all changes when he wakes up one morning and finds most of Chumsville's population gone, including his mother. Along with the other survivors, he finds that an impenetrable barrier has surrounded the town which allows people to enter but not leave. To make matters even stranger, he finds wings growing from his body, and the other residents exhibit changes as well, some of them interesting and many of them frightening. Soon the Changed, as Gabe comes to call them, are met by the FBI, and they are just as bewildered as everyone else is. Tensions mount as the heat rises, harsh words are exchanged, and sides are drawn. Once Gabe discovers the reason for their transformation, he has to deal with another matter-the darkness of the human heart. It is only then that he learns what it is to confront evil and face it down, even if it might cost him his life.

The magic continues, and it shows no signs of stopping.

It was The Sixties – flower power, woman’s lib, free love – and everyone was having fun. Except Brian Adamson, twenty-six years old and still trapped in a claustrophobic existence dominated by a widowed mother whose life was filled by angels and saints with little love left for her son. She nevertheless expected him to replicate the life of her “dear departed husband,” whom truth be told, she had barely tolerated. But she went too far when she picked out a clone of herself as Brian’s intended bride. If he was ever to be happy, he had to make a break for it. But what can an inexperienced, guilt-ridden and insecure young Canadian do to break the apron strings that bind? The answer stared him in the face one day when he was perusing the MONTREAL STAR at his dead-end office job. Wanted: College Graduates Young men and women who would like to make a difference by serving as volunteer teachers in developing countries ... Maybe there was a solution to his problem after all! If you loved Kwei Quartey’s mystery novels or the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series, you will be delighted by Brian’s late-blooming adventures as he finds love and helps solve a murder that has perplexed the residents of the “quiet” little village where he ends up teaching.

Joe Dolan, raised on a farm in the back woods of Pennsylvania, wearies of the farm life and sets out to find his place in the world. While working at the Space Fleet Logistics Center at Hanford Washington, The Mars Colony declares it independence and our space fleet, desperate for pilots accepts Joe as a trainee. Several years later the rebellion has been crushed and Joe has risen to Commander of the intergalactic Space Patrol. While on a routine mission he is ambushed by an unknown adversary, shot down and crashes on a planet with an ancient culture. The people of a small village near his crash site accept him as a wizard after he drives of a band of outlaws with his Magic wand, an antique long barreled Colt 45, left to him by his grandfather which he has carried with him for years for sentimental reasons. Joe befriends young Ali, a mischievous street urchin and, using their wits and Joes long barreled Colt, they manage to keep the bandits at bay. Joes unknown adversary turns out to be an alien race determined to establish a colony on the ancient planet and Joe and Ali have to devise ways to battle the aliens superior technology with cunning and ancient weapons.