The Eldergloom Chronicles: Wielder of the Wraithfire

Vaughn Corven has spent twenty-six years building an ordinary life in Lincoln, Nebraska, a marriage worth keeping, a family worth loving, and a retail manager's hard-won patience for things that refuse to cooperate. Then the symbols start appearing. In the shadows on his lawn. In his wife's greenhouse, where the ivy grows into doorways. In the drawings, his nine-year-old Lee can't stop drawing or speaking about things no child should know.

When a mysterious book called the Codex Umbralus fin...