Fourteen-year-old Oliver García would love to just get through high school. His soccer teammates call his dream boring, but he doesn’t care. He’s the son of hard-working immigrants, and he’d be a fool to let the American Dream go to waste. First he’d get through high school. Next he’d figure out trade school. But then Oliver meets Archie, a talking feathered serpent, and Oliver realizes that—just maybe—his dream had been way too boring after all. Because Oliver, the flying serpent reveals, is a wizard. Better yet, he’s just what the Other Side of the Key needs to solve a multi-generational mystery involving a 17th century oracle, an eccentric history professor, an evil politician, and the Legend of the Iguana’s Scroll. Danger, mystery, and intrigue wait around every corner in Oliver’s debut magical-treasure-hunting adventure, but he doesn’t mind. Now that he’s had a taste of the Other Side, there’s no way he’ll ever go back to worrying about picking a trade school.

Lalandra tapped a finger against her nose and leaned back in her chair. “There are more ways than one to combat evil in this world, Oliver García. If you pick the wrong path—the wrong principles—you’ll lose every time.” Oliver García is set to return to Tenochprima Academy for his second year of magic-filled adventure. Armed with the knowledge of the Iguana’s Scroll, he is desperate to get back, reunite with his friends, and resume his search for the three artifacts prophesized for him to find. But as The Damned’s impending escape grows nearer, Oliver discovers that taking the madman down won’t be as simple as he’d once hoped. The fate of the world will come down to the decisions he makes and the principles that govern them.