Book excerpt: Discovering that the spirits are real makes the world far more complex than one could imagine... Fifteen-year-old Maleek Warden's high school life was normal... at least before three strange things changed his world forever. Strange thing #1: Finding a dying angelic being impaled to a tree. Strange thing #2: Said angelic being delivering to him a message from another realm. Strange thing #3: Discovering the reality of gifted human warriors, invisible divine beings, and a chaotic war hidden in plain sight. But it gets worse. Some of these spirits are unquestionably evil and prey on human beings. Worse still. The evil ones are coordinating for something big, and Maleek has a strange feeling it has everything to do with the message he has received. If Maleek and friends have any hope of surviving what is to come, he needs to tap into his gifts. But his inability to access them just seems to be the latest of his growing list of problems. Begin this explosive story on page 1...