Middle Grade -- Fantasy Novel
Home isn't where you're placed. It's what you protect.
Fourteen-year-old Magnus has always felt like he was "borrowed", an extra piece in a world that doesn't quite have a place for him. Standing six-foot-two and weighing over two hundred pounds, he is too big to ignore yet somehow remains invisible to everyone except his only friend.
But the world Magnus knows is beginning to crack. It starts with small things: a shadow that doesn't line up, a whisper where no one is standing, and a strange little man by the school bike racks who claims to be a gnome. While others walk by obliviously, Magnus can see through the "glamour" to the ancient, magical layer of reality hidden beneath the mundane.
When Magnus and Mallory are thrust into a world of Magic creatures, and hunted by a secret organization known as The Order, Magnus hunts the truth behind his own origins. Is he just a misplaced foster kid; surrounded by the disposable, the damaged, and the disrespected.
As an ancient struggle resurfaces, Magnus must choose: to try to stay hidden and safe, or embrace the path he was born with to protect the only family he has ever known.
In a world that fears what it cannot control, Magnus must decide if he will be its destruction-or its last hope.
