Warlocks before their time . . .Fourteen-year-old Augum grew up with bullies instead of friends. In a kingdom where superstition trumped the written word, he fought loneliness by reading books and doing hard labor. It was a typical life for a gutter-born orphan.Until a vicious tyrant burns it all to the ground.After fleeing the inferno, Augum apprentices under a mysterious mentor and begins learning the forbidden art of magic. He even befriends Bridget and Leera, two passionate and quirky girls willing to give him a chance. Together they dare to train as warlocks.But Augum's mentor possesses a mythical artifact. When the tyrant suddenly turns up demanding it, the group is plunged into a harrowing ordeal, and Augum will have to use his newly learned spells to try to save the only thing he has left . . . a friendship forged in fire.A coming of age fantasy series with over 3500 five-star reviews on GoodreadsAudiobooks narrated by Grammy and Hugo winner Stefan RudnickiNominated for the 2019 Epic Fantasy Fanatics Readers Choice Award⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "If you loved Harry Potter, Arcane has the same thrill and page-turning fun." --Amazon reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "An epic journey of survival and self discovery." --A. Hatfield, Amazon reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Great story, well-written, subtle and complex character development, interesting magical system. Superbly done coming-of-age." --Amazon reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "It's The Hobbit mixed with Harry Potter... but set in Eragon... kinda. It's got great fantasy and adventure elements and is a great read for middleschoolers, high schoolers, heck, even adults " --Amazon reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Everything is in there for a wonderful book, character development, pacing, action, heartache, discovery, growth, and many, many more." --Amazon reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I enjoyed reading this so much that I purchased the rest of the series Immediately and then sat up all night finishing them for the next few days." --Amazon reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Every time I start to think I have read everything good, I stumble across a ge