It's September and I'm happy to start another serial today with The Props Master 2: A Touch of Magic. I'll be posting a chapter every three days.
This story is the long-awaited sequel to The Props Master 1: Ritual Reality. The story will make more sense if you read the first and the prequel first, but it is filled with magic and illusion that I think you can appreciate regardless. In this volume, Wayne Hamel, known variously as the Props Master, the Vagabond Priest, and the Unbound is fulfilling the commission he was given at the end of Ritual Reality. He and the four priestesses of his inner circle swore to guide and protect Serepte Allen until such time as she could fulfill her own destiny and rescue the man trapped Behind the Ivory Veil in the prequel.
It's five years after Ritual Reality and Serepte is now eighteen. She's moved the circle to Minneapolis where she continues her musical studies at the University of Minnesota. The move has freed her mother, Rebecca Hart Allen-the high priestess of Coven Carles-to return to Greece in search of her lost husband. When a traveling magician comes to Minneapolis to do his illusions at the Showbox, where Wayne works as the lighting technician, the pieces are all in place for a dramatic conclusion.
But a demon man has also arrived on the scene and his quest for the goddess and her power plays havoc with their plans. As the Great Paris tells his audience, it's all an illusion. None of this is real.
I'm happy to return to the story I began forty years ago. Enjoy!