The Lost Spells

He lost everything.Now the darkness wants what's left.

Ten-year-old Karl Chen never asked for a new life in the Arizona desert. Forced into a crumbling, abandoned ranch that reeks of rot and secrets, he quickly learns the place is far worse than it looks—it is haunted. And the thing that haunts it is watching.

Then Karl meets the spider.

She speaks. She remembers. A century ago she was a girl named Mary, until a Romanian witch cursed her forever. That same witch still walks the canyon at night, hungry for the power locked inside her lost spellbook.

If Karl and Mary fail to find it first, the curse will claim them both… and the darkness that has waited a hundred years will finally be free.

Courage is all they have.Magic is all that stands between them and oblivion.

The Lost Spells — Book One of the Magee Chronicles.A chilling middle-grade fantasy of friendship, bravery, and the terrible price of forgotten magic.
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