Chapter One

Ian Black is an illusionist with a talent for keeping secrets. Rayne Bevan is a college student with a gift for uncovering them. She suspects Ian’s skills for disappearing, conjuring objects and reading minds extends beyond the stage and that he’s the area’s mysterious and elusive defender of the innocent. In her efforts to uncover the truth, she is swept into a hidden world of the Weir, a magical race who struggle to prevent Earth from self-destructing. Rayne’s inquiries expose Ian to the force behind the Weir’s raging civil war, a lethal saboteur who will use her to destroy Ian and launch Earth’s Armageddon.