These Lives That Bind Us (An Ella Ephran novel)

For Ella Ephran, becoming a Master Magician was everything until it all blew up in her face. A Master Magician can create the path of magic, an Intermediate Magician can bend its path, but as a Novice Magician she can only see its path through the world around her. Attending a community college for an Associate Degree in Novice Magic is all she has left.It's a new start in a new place, when a stranger makes her seem welcome. A friendly face on one day becomes distant an unaware the next, barely recognizing the night after, and then a twisted corpse, a husk of their former self.Who were they and what happened to them? Her search for the truth leads her on the trail of a monster that's killed for decades, something no one believes exists. Can she hope to stop such a killer without the ability to control magic? Read more