Okay, everybody, here we go! Below is the first excerpt from The Fourth Horseman , my sequel to my book The Fifth . This version is close to final, but it isn't written in stone, so please feel free to ask questions, point out issues, comment on the things you're seeing. I am very interested in hearing all of it! ***** Chapter One You would think having magical powers would make life easier. I’d thought so, even though the Beryls had tried to tell me, in their boy way, that it wasn’t true, magic didn’t solve all problems like it did in the movies. I hadn’t heard them. In my defense, I’d been distracted by my mother’s potential death, but I don’t think I would have heard them on my best day. Now that I’ve experienced them both, I think magic is a lot like romantic love; it changes less and takes more than we’ve been led to believe. “Yes, very deep,” Jason said when I unloaded this theory on him during a phone call one afternoon in September. “You should majo
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