Quinn knew books have power. The power to help a scared and angry kid escape from the reality of his father’s death. The power to help you forget about the bullies and imagine worlds where the smart kid becomes a wizard. The power to make you a better person and to create lifelong friendships.

The day that Nate died everything changed for Quinn. His long term mentor had helped him through the death of his father and far more. It also changed for everyone else, because Nate was a wizard who had closed the thirteen gates five hundred years ago. And now with his death those gates have opened and magic has returned to the world. With corrupt wizards, monsters, fae, jinn and nameless elder abominations returning the world is almost entirely unprepared, but unbeknown to him Nate was teaching Quinn far more than it had first appeared. By convincing him to read books that explored the gods of Olympus, the adventures in Wonderland and many others he was teaching Quinn to be a wizard while hoping that the day the boy would need to learn to use magic might never come. Now Quinn must prove that he isn't a murderer, learn to control magic and protect the world from powers it hasn't faced in five hundred years all while avoiding being killed by his best friend's ex girlfriend.