Lone Power
A Wizard Alone
Kit and Nita join forces once more against the terrible Lone Power on an unusual battleground, as they fight for the heart and mind of a young wizard with the power to save their world...
Initially, Kit finds himself flying solo as Nita has sunk into a deep depression after the events of The Wizard's Dilemma. Luckily, Kit's telepathic pooch, Ponch, is happy to fill Nita's niche temporarily, as long as enough dog biscuits are involved.
Kit's fighting to understand why autistic wizard-in-training Darryl McAllister has been stuck in his wizardly Ordeal for over three months. Is it merely the fault of his autism? Exploring inside Darryl's mind, Kit and Ponch discover complex landscapes of weird beauty that belie Darryl's rocking, vacant exterior. But they also find the Lone Power, attacking Darryl with a relentless brutality that seems to make little sense. What makes Darryl so important -- and why can't he escape his Ordeal?
Nita, meanwhile, is distracted from her sorrow by a series of strange dreams in which some mysterious being pleads desperately for her aid. What do the cryptic messages mean? She has to find out quickly -- because now Kit, too, has vanished. Can she find him -- and if she does, will the two of them be able to come together in time to deal with the Lone Power before It can destroy them?
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High Wizardry
Don't take shrewd, eleven-year-old Dairine Callahan for just any bratty younger sibling. Impatient for adventure, knowledge, and recognition, maybe even a little jealous of her wizardly older sister, Dairine comes across Nita's copy of the Wizard's Manual and reads the Wizard's Oath aloud....
Disappointingly, nothing seems to happen. But when her family's new computer arrives, Dairine discovers that it's come with more than the usual bundled software.
The computer contains a "beta" version of the new online edition of the Wizard's Manual...and it's all hers to play with.
Never the kind to do anything by halves, Dairine launches herself into a reckless, universe-wide, high-voltage magical conflict with the Lone Power. It falls to Nita and Kit to track Dairine down before she gets into trouble so deep that not even her precocious brains can save her.
But by the time they catch up with her, it's already too late. On a bleak and empty world, Dairine has already become the wizardly "godmother" to a brand new life-form -- and the relentless Enemy of all new life is even now seeking to end the threat Dairine poses...permanently.
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