by Dan Koboldt
How long have I waited to hear that? He used to dream of proving himself to the world. Of seeing his name in the neon lights and knowing he deserved the title of magician. Now the word carried a different meaning. It meant the Enclave was his home, and the magicians were his family. Strange how much that seemed to matter now. Yet it was a private sort of feeling, a thing best left unsaid.
And Quinn Bradley still had a reputation to maintain.
“Oh, Mendez.” Quinn clapped a hand on his shoulder and walked with him back toward the others. “I’ve always been a real magician.”
Author’s Note
Dear Reader,
You made it! Thank you so much for reading my series from start to finish. And it is finished, as far as I know. As much as I love Alissia, I’ve always seen this as a story with three parts. Feel free to assume that every character you’ve come to love lives happily ever after. I’m still writing, of course, but I have other stories to tell. If you’d like to hear about them, please join my mailing list here:
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Acknowledgments
I’m grateful to so many people for helping this book become a reality. To my family, for their unconditional support of my writing. To my editor, David Pomerico, for his sharp editorial eye. To the publicity and marketing teams at Harper Voyager, for helping my books reach a wider audience. To my agent, Paul Stevens, for his constant support and career guidance. To my critique partners, Dannie Morin and Mike Mammay, for ferreting out my writing weaknesses.
I would never have come this far without the support of the writing community. Special thanks to my friends in The Clubhouse, Codex Writers, the Pitch Wars community, and Impulse Authors Unite. If I still have my sanity, it’s because of you.
Last but not least, I’m grateful to my readers for taking a final trip through the gateway to Alissia. I hope it was everything you wanted, and more.
About the Author
DAN KOBOLDT is a genetics researcher and fantasy/science-fiction author. He has coauthored more than sixty publications in Nature, Human Mutation, Genome Research, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, and other scientific journals. Dan is also an avid hunter and outdoorsman. Every fall, he disappears into the woods to pursue whitetail deer with bow and arrow. He lives with his wife and children in Ohio, where the deer take their revenge by eating the flowers in his backyard.
You can find him online at http://dankoboldt.com and on Twitter @DanKoboldt.
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Digital Edition FEBRUARY 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-265910-1
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-265911-8
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