A Sudden Outbreak of Magic stars Kelley and Jeroan Strickland, twin teenagers whose family just moved to Dubuque, Iowa, after Jeroan got into big trouble in Chicago. One cold morning in November, Kelley gets "infected" by magic after reading aloud from a small leatherbound book she finds.
She also blows up the family home in the process.
Soon Kelley and Jeroan must face a power-hungry, centuries-old Sorcerer who wants to rid the world of what he calls "renegade" magic-users. Only Kelley's new way of using magic ...
A Sudden Outbreak of Magic stars Kelley and Jeroan Strickland, twin teenagers whose family just moved to Dubuque, Iowa, after Jeroan got into big trouble in Chicago. One cold morning in November, Kelley gets "infected" by magic after reading aloud from a small leatherbound book she finds.
She also blows up the family home in the process.
Soon Kelley and Jeroan must face a power-hungry, centuries-old Sorcerer who wants to rid the world of what he calls "renegade" magic-users. Only Kelley's new way of using magic will save their new city and their magically infected friends, though she may lose her brother Jeroan in the process.
A novel about power, growing up, and finding your place within those two very different realms.
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Meet the Author
Michael Jasper has published over four dozen short stories in Asimov's, Strange Horizons, O. Henry Festival Stories, Polyphony, Writers of the Future, and the Raleigh News & Observer, among other fine venues. His most recent novel is A Gathering of Doorways (Prime Books).
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A Sudden Outbreak of Magic stars Kelley and Jeroan Strickland, twin teenagers whose family just moved to Dubuque, Iowa, after Jeroan got into big trouble in Chicago. One cold morning in November, Kelley gets "infected" by magic after reading aloud from a small leatherbound book she finds.She also blows up the family home in the process.
Soon Kelley and Jeroan must face a power-hungry, centuries-old Sorcerer who wants to rid the world of what he calls "renegade" magic-users. Only Kelley's new way of using magic ...