Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Perenelle shuddered. "You know I hate leprechauns more than almost anything.

The SUV was the only car moving. Josh had his foot pressed flat to the floor, and the needle on the speedometer hovered close to eighty. He was becoming more comfortable with the controls—he hadn't hit anything for at least a minute.

And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.