Jerry Nowlin

A paranormal psychic investigation mystery and winner of the silver medal Bookfest award for Supernatural Thrillers in Fiction. Most people think of Daphne Winters as a quirky personality, prone to blurting out painful truths and talking about weird things like death and ghosts. She doesn’t see any reason to not be direct. She, of all people, knows how short life is. She’s been talking to ghosts since she was a child. And now she just wants to start over with a new life in a new town, escaping a past that includes consulting with the Los Angeles Police Department as a psychic ...

The Academy of Chaenbalu has stood against magic for centuries. Hidden from the world, acting from the shadows, it trains its students to detect and retrieve magic artifacts, which it jealously guards from the misuse of others. Because magic is dangerous: Something that heals can also harm, and a power that aids one person may destroy another. Of the academy’s many students, only the most skilled can become Avatars - warrior thieves, capable of infiltrating the most heavily guarded vaults - and only the most determined can be trusted to resist the lure of magic.