A Sudden Outbreak of Magic

This book will probably be the start of a trilogy called Contagious Magic. Click here for more info.

A Sudden Outbreak of Magic is a young-adult, contemporary fantasy novel about power, growing up, and finding your place within those two realms.

Kelley, a black fifteen-year-old, has just moved to whitebread Dubuque, Iowa, with her family. One morning, Kelley gets infected by magic after reading aloud from a small leatherbound book she finds.

She also blows up the family home in the process.

Soon she and her brother  get caught in a centuries-old battle between a power-hungry Sorcerer who wants to rid the world of what he calls “renegade” magic-users and a good Sorcerer whose health and mind are failing him. Only Kelley’s new way of channeling and using magic will save her adopted city, her brother, and her new, magically infected friends.