Nonmagical people are being demonized and falsely blamed for Magnifico’s economic problems after Queen Vivian’s bloody rise to power. But politics very quickly become more than abstract views to argue about when secret police wolves are deployed throughout the country to kill those born without magical abilities.<br><br>Seventeen-year-old Maximillian’s best friend Katherine is one such nonmagical person. In a bid to keep her safe, Maximillian turns to the queen’s estranged younger brother, a man thought to be dead until recently.<br><br>Prince Stefan is nineteen years old and has been in hiding from his family for years. He has no desire to resurface in the political world. Can Maximillian convince him the country needs him before it’s too late?

In the Name of Magic

He frowned. “You shouldn’t be here. Someone could see. We can discuss this back at the cabin—”


Stefan didn’t finish his sentence because a gunshot echoed. A girl with blood oozing from her chest lay on the snow near a suitcase. Blood even splattered from her wound, staining the snow around her red.


I was beginning to think that the violence would never stop because I shouldn’t have witnessed another death. Yet I had, and I’d carry that with me for the rest of my life, like every other bad thing that happened to me or I witnessed.


Stefan’s gaze lit on the same things I had seen only moments earlier.


“We should get out of here,” Stefan murmured into my ear.


He was concerned for my safety, which reminded me of how I had the perfect boyfriend. But having perfect didn’t matter right now. Not when people were being killed senselessly.


Stefan grabbed my hand. Then, he clicked his fingers before I could even respond.


Chapter 48