Pulled from Earth into a world of magic — with more raw power than anyone alive, and no idea how to use it.
In this world everything about you is contagious — even the color of your skin. And what's given can never be taken back.
When a god dies, it is reborn as an ordinary child — and the Keepers hunt the reborn to cull them and harvest their flesh for power.
Painters bring their art to life. When Bella's mother is murdered, she paints to fight back — and the Collector wants magic itself erased forever.
All magic grows from six sacred, outlawed mushrooms — and the world's one hope is a legend hiding on a mountain.
Destiny chose Chauncy to save the world. His grandmother made him get a job. Chaos, obviously, ensued.
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A few words from readers:
★★★★★“This is a book you can get lost in.”
— Janice Clark, Amazon · Magic of Havenwood
★★★★★“Unlike anything else I have read… a true page turner!”
— Robert Sacks, Amazon · Fate of Legends
★★★★☆“I don't think I've had more fun reading fantasy books in a long time.”
— Amazon Customer · Magic of Magic
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A magic system with real rules
Hard logic, real costs, and that click when the hero finally cracks how it works.
Start with Runic →Combat that feels real and earned
Impact, technique, and injuries that matter — heroes who win because they're skilled.
Start with Blade of Hylon →Dark stakes and no easy answers
It never pulls its punches: hard choices, tangled loyalties, a hero who pays for each one.
Start with Fate of Legends →Magic made from art and imagination
Power you create instead of just wield — painting, music, making. Genuinely original.
Start with Magic of Havenwood →Big laughs that never cheat the story
Actual wit and actual heart — comedy that never drops the plot or the characters. (For grown-ups.)
Start with Magic of Magic →A deep, literary journey that lingers
A beautiful, melancholy book about the masks we wear and the selves we run from — fantasy that makes you feel as much as it makes you wonder. (Mature.)
Start with Masks of Eternity →
About the Author
“I always meant to write a book. Then my son was born — and I finally had the reason I’d been waiting for.”
Clayton Taylor Wood writes epic fantasy shaped by an unusual résumé — computer programmer, graphic designer, martial-arts instructor, and, for the last sixteen years, an emergency physician in a trauma center. It's why life and death carry real weight on the page.
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