Jennifers Magic Book 3 Innocents Lost

Jennifer and Lahni prepare for most important task in history. Failure to complete the task on time will result in millions of deaths each week. Failure to complete the task altogether will result in the extinction of man. They have four months to strengthen their souls and learn new magic. They study childbirths and dying patients to learn about souls, lifeforce, and lifebinder. They invent magic that will work in different environments. Lahni studies how to motivate groups, because her task will require the assistance of many.

Unbeknownst to anyone but Lahni, Jennifer plans to accompany Lahni on her task. Jennifer fears that her soul was weakened by using magic on many mages who posed no direct threat. Jennifer gets pregnant and loves her unborn child. Lahni thinks of a way to compress a year of puberty into two months. The method works, and she becomes pregnant with twins.

Lahni never experienced romantic love, a major component of a strong soul. The only person who could become her lover within four months is Jennifer. Jennifer is not bisexual and does not want a romantic relationship with a girl she considers to be a little sister. She shoves those attitudes aside, act as if she were bisexual, and treats Lahni as a sixteen-year-old girlfriend. That emotionally painful process works, and Lahni gets a romantic relationship with sex before she leaves. If Lahni doesn't miscarry, she'll have the strongest soul on Earth.

Jennifer remains plagued by a fragment of the curse nightmare that feeds off her angers--angers about the task, having to help Lahni get pregnant, and having to become Lahni's lover. Jennifer failed to fix the problem last year, but now she must succeed at reclassifying things that make her angry to things she dislikes. If she fails, then recurrent nightmares will hinder her creation of new magic and will poison her relationships.

Lahni and her parents grieve about Lahni being sent far away to complete the task. Lahni's parents face another problem. Their ten-year-old son, who spoke little all his life, totally stops speaking after learning of Lahni's task. One of Jennifer's therapists diagnoses the problem but cannot treat it. Lahni implements a radical treatment before she leaves to begin the task.

Jason, a friend of Jennifer, never did a reenactment for his curse nightmare. The curse now affects Jason's behaviour. He loses his position as caretaker in the group home for mage orphans that he founded. Jason isolates himself from everyone except his girlfriend, Beth. On the few occasions when he sees people, he is nasty and mean. Jennifer can't persuade her friend Beth to leave Jason.

Lahni's task begins a few weeks earlier than expected, and it is different than expected. Only Lahni will go--Jennifer's presence would be superfluous. Jennifer is distraught and heartbroken and sinks into a prolonged depression. She doesn't suicide only because she promised Lahni that she would take care of Evelyn Ramona, the child Jennifer expects to bear in six months. Five months pass without a message from Lahni. The task will not be completed on time. Jennifer explains the task to Lead Master Maitre. The general public must be warned of an upcoming catastrophe of unknown duration. No one will believe that a catastrophe will strike unless someone can demonstrate special knowledge. Jennifer will reveal that she's a powerful mage, but she will do so in a way that doesn't indicate that other mages exist. By outing herself as a mage, she irrevocably changes her life and her parents' lives.

Jennifer hears from Lahni a few weeks after the deadline passed. Lahni, with much help, completed the task, but not in time to prevent a month-long catastrophe. Jennifer gives birth to Evelyn Ramona before the catastrophe strikes. Jennifer works hard to lessen killings in response to the catastrophe. Millions die, but deaths from armed conflicts and terrorism fall to the lowest levels in decades.

Jason's soul becomes consumed by the curse nightmare. He wants to punish Jennifer. Jennifer's powers prevent Jason from punishing her directly, but he finds another way. Beth tries to stop Jason, but he severely injures her. Jason partially succeeds with his indirect punishments.

A month after the catastrophe, Lahni contacts Jennifer and explains the origin of magic, the cause of the catastrophe, and why she will go on a long voyage and never see Earth again. The book ends with Lahni and Jennifer sharing the Nobel Peach Prize for completing the task and minimizing the catastrophe. Jennifer feels bitterness because, after Lahni's sacrifice and after Jennifer outed herself to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people while keeping the existence of other mages secret, not one mage government officially thanked Lahni and her.