The Ebony Finches · A Transition Magic Thriller

The Ebony Finches is Book 3 of the Transition Series.

Transition. When all children have the power to perform magic for one month as they enter puberty. But with a monstrous catch. The magic must be the child’s sincere desire and something never done before. Or they die.

It’s August, 2015. The Department of Transition Security has received a report that an adolescent girl in Ticonderoga, New York has entered a corrupted form of Transition — her irises are ebony with blood-red flecks rather than Transition's lavender. DTS agent John Benoit flies to Ticonderoga, confirms the child's unprecedented condition, and is horrified when the healthy young girl dies on the last day of her Transition. Reeling, Benoit learns of a nearby boy with the same symptoms. His alarm spikes when he discovers that the boy has used magic that isn't unique. He watches the boy die on the thirtieth day of Transition. Reports of the same condition and devastating outcome begin to filter into the DTS from around the world. The global threat, coined the T-plague by a panicked media, is unprecedented—an inexorable pandemic with a one-hundred percent mortality rate, combined with the risk of unrestrained magic.

Woven into The Ebony Finches are the stories of two children in Transition:

— Karina Veselý, living in devastated post-World War Two Czechoslovakia;

— Still Water, son of a Apsaalooka Shaman, whose tribe is under pressure from encroaching whites.

John and his partner, Stony Hill—a fiery, pierced, purple-haired agent half his age—lead an emergency response team to eliminate the T-plague. The crisis deepens when they're alerted to a neo-nazi terrorist who intends to use his son's twisted Transition to destroy a US city.