The Red Ring

Maggie Stuart, now 16, feels alienated and lost – her former friends ignore her, and magic, something that once came naturally, has deserted her entirely.

But when she interrupts a dangerous occult ritual, it is the beginning of another baptism by fire for both her and the boys she once saved: Jason Lawson, Scott Saunders, and Aaron Scribner. And she discovers that the supernatural world has never been as far away as it had seemed. . .

In Book One of the Blood & Magic series, The Last Rite, we were introduced to 13-year-old Maggie Stuart, a girl whose introduction to the occult world is anything but gentle. Kidnapped and placed in the middle of an ancient struggle between paranormal powers, it's all she can do to survive and protect the others who end up in the line of fire.

Three years later, Maggie is in high school and desperate to reclaim what she sees as her birthright as a practitioner of magic. But she feels locked out not only from the workings of supernatural power but from the lives of the boys she once thought of a friends.

When they perform a rite that releases something deadly into Toronto, they come to Maggie for help. She leaps at the chance to involve herself both in their lives and a quest destined to put her back in touch with magic, but she has secrets she must hide as well. And not the least of those is her strange relationship with the man she used to call teacher, the enigmatic Mr. Hunt.