The Storm's Awakening

They want to put her magic in a box. She is going to show them the storm.

For ten years, Elara Vance thought the violent static electricity humming in her fingertips was just a weird quirk of growing up on damp, foggy Whidbey Island. She was wrong. At the exact hour of her tenth birthday, her dormant magic violently detonates, blowing out the town's power grid and shattering the quiet, mundane life her antique-dealing parents carefully built.

The truth is far more dangerous than a few blown lightbulbs. Elara is a witch, and her parents are highly trained magical fugitives hiding from the Arcanum-a ruthless, global government that controls all magic through rigid, unyielding rules. But Elara's power refuses to be categorized. It is wild, entirely elemental, and tied directly to the roaring oceans and deep, ancient ley lines of the Pacific Northwest.

Now, the Arcanum's elite assassins have breached the island, determined to lock away an anomaly they cannot control. Hunted through the old-growth forests and treacherous coastal cliffs, Elara must abandon the strict magical laws her parents were taught.

Alongside a telepathic, lightning-laced Thunderbird named Squall and a top-secret, magical defense division of the US Navy, Elara has to learn to harness the chaotic power of the earth itself. Because the Arcanum isn't just coming for her-they are declaring war on her home. And the Witch of Whidbey Island is ready to fight back.