The Wizard's Shield

Abandoned as a child, betrayed during adolescence, and tortured when he was just barely an adult, Michael Morgan refuses to be so vulnerable ever again. Using his knowledge of magic and physics, he invents a shield to protect himself. Rumors reach the U.S. Magic Councils that a powerful wizard might have created a weapon with the potential to destabilize the fragile order they've established, so they send his former girlfriend, an adjunct of one of the Councils, to investigate. Ilene McConn...