Mac kept incessantly tapping his Sharpie on the side of his clipboard and shifting his weight between his feet. It’s sort of like telling someone who had just won an Olympic gold medal and was proudly wearing it around their neck, that their necklace was cute. You, me, and all of our techs, so we can go over your trick and map out how it will be safely implemented into the show.” He knew that calling what I had done a “trick” instead of an illusion I would take as a slight. “I’d like to schedule a crew call for you once your contract has been signed. When he continued talking, he had a bit less snap in his voice. He had probably expected me to say “Oh, no worries! Nothing important.” He made no comment, but backed off a little. I don’t think he expected my answer to be truthful, and he looked taken aback. I could tell he didn’t care that he had interrupted, or that he had been rude. “Hopefully I wasn’t interrupting something important,” Mac said, with no attempt at feigning actual sincerity. Handbook for Mortals is the first book in the series of this urban fantasy, paranormal romance series by author Lani Sarem.įollowing Zade through the trials-and romance-of finding her own place in the world, readers will identify with their own struggles to fit in, reflected in the fantastic, yet mundane world of Zade's life. Her fate is left in the hands of a mortal who does not believe in a world of real magick, a fortuneteller who knew one day Zade would put herself in danger and a dagger with mystical powers. Using Chaos magick, which is known for being unpredictable, she tests her abilities as a spellcaster farther than she's ever tried and finds herselfat death's door. Zade's secrets and the struggle to choose between Mac or Jackson creates reckless tension during the grand finale of the show. After all, when everyone is slightly eccentric, appearing ''normal'' is much less important.īehind the scenes of this multimillion-dollar production, Zade finds herself caught in a love triangle with Mac, the show's good-looking but rough-around-the-edges technical director and Jackson, the tall, dark, handsome and charming bandleader. Zade fits right in with his troupe of artists and misfits.

Zade travels to Las Vegas and uses supernatural powers to become part of a premiere magic show led by the infamous magician Charles Spellman. She leaves her home in Tennessee to break free from her overprotective mother Dela, the local resident spellcaster and fortuneteller. Growing up in a small town and never quite fitting in, Zade is determined to forge her own path.

Zade Holder has always been a free-spirited young woman, from a long dynasty of tarot-card readers, fortunetellers, and practitioners of magick. Tagline: A young woman goes to Las Vegas to join a magic show only to learn that falling in love is more dangerous than magic.

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