The Magus's Odyssey

Kael is fourteen, raised in the hinterlands by his grandfather. He has a mind that runs on patterns and a past he doesn't talk about. He wants to know why his parents really died and to stay off the radar.Then his hands crack a table with power he didn't know he had. The cottage burns. His grandfather is gone. He's left with a dead man's journal, a stolen crystal, and a single instruction: find someone in the city. The people who killed his father didn't know he had a son. Now they're looking.He has no allies, almost no money, and a head full of questions. In a world where magic is controlled by the few, a boy with his father's secrets had better learn fast or disappear.