Fey both beautiful and vicious hide in the Georgia backwoods, guarded by four-hundred-year-old peanut farmer, bootlegger, and wizard Jedediah Shine. Protecting humanity and the fey from one another is normally child's play compared to teaching magic to his new foster daughter and a Cherry Coke addicted dragonling, parenting an out-of-control half-elven teen sorceress or keeping his jealous elven ex-lover away from his new girlfriend. Jedediah's delicate balancing act is thrown into turmoil when rebellious, young centaurs launch a genocidal war against humanity from within his borders. At the same time, a vengeful mercenary company lays a trail of suspicious murders directly to Jedediah's door. Unwitting pawns to a deeper menace, both serve a centuries-long plot to steal magic's deepest secret. The bloody conflict thrusts Jedediah's family into Death's reach. As the body bag count rises and law enforcement closes in, Jedediah is forced to make desperate choices to protect his loved ones and magic itself by stopping the murders in his wood.

Wizard's Bane is on the warpath. The seditious young centaurs have become a force to be reckoned with, slaughtering wizards and sowing dissent within the fey. When opposition threatens to thwart their plans, they abduct dragonlings to frame their enemies at the risk of causing a full scale dragon war. Jedediah is lost, thrusting his Guardian mantle onto his apprentices. Haunted by demons wearing Lanea's smile, Drake abandons Jordan in favor of drunken Cherry Coke oblivion. Desperate for Jedediah's help, Drake gambles all on a cross-country flight to enlist his mother's help only to fall prey to Wizard's Bane. Pre-teens desperate for protection besiege Jordan. Faced with needy adolescents and centaurs, Zero's dragon slayer and church ladies armed with holy water, Jordan struggles to keep everyone alive while scouring Jedediah's properties to find him. Can Jordan and Drake persevere with war on the horizon, or will the Wizard's Bane write victory songs in their blood?