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After a sorcerer kills her mother, fifteen year old Melantha is forced to live with her overbearing Gran. She longs for freedom, a normal life, and her spell-turner powers to develop. Then an elf from the Magic Council shows up and offers her both freedom and justice for her mother’s murder.

Melantha is their only hope for catching the sorcerer. All she has to do is help the Magic Council get past the sorcerer’s defenses. There’s just one catch. She has to befriend the wimpiest kid in school: the son of the sorcerer.

If she doesn’t succeed, the sorcerer will be free to unleash his plan to remove magic from all spell-turners. But she’ll have to be careful, or she may end up the sorcerer’s next victim.