Awakening Aidan

Aidan Collins lives in a world divided. Sorcerers--people who can safely use magic--make up the majority of the population, while wizards--people with dangerous magic banned by the government--are a highly regulated minority. Despite living as a second class citizen, Aidan is more or less content with his life in a San Francisco Wizards' Quarter, helping young, freshly manifested wizards adjust to their new circumstances. He has faith the system is looking out for him; a faith he's never had reason to question.

Until one night when he's rescued from two abusive cops by the mysterious sorcerer, Eallair, who--along with ridiculous hair and an unpronounceable name--brings along dangerous ideas of freedom and choice. It doesn't take long for truths Aidan's known his entire life to be exposed as lies and Aidan finds himself on the run with Eallair, caught up in his desperate, years' long quest to find the resting place of the legendary King Arthur. As Aidan leaves behind the only life he's ever known, he has to find a way to fit into a world where outcasts are hunted down and killed and, just maybe, become an unlikely hero along the way.

CONTENT ADVISORY: This story contains a "to be continued ending".