Eight books of the most consistently funny fantasy you'll ever read.

Chauncy was always different. As a child, he was meek, sweet, and absolutely certain that magic was real — spending every spare moment reading spell books his grandmother refused to take seriously. The world had a plan for him. Destiny herself had marked Chauncy as the one who would save everything.

Then Grandma Little stepped in. She'd raised Chauncy after his mother's death, and she had exactly zero patience for "chosen one" nonsense. So Chauncy got a job. And Destiny waited. And waited. And eventually stopped waiting.

What follows — across eight hilarious, increasingly chaotic books — is Chauncy's collision with the magical destiny he tried to avoid, armed with spells that never quite work as intended, a magic system that seems personally offended by him, and absolutely no idea what he's doing. Think reluctant-hero comedy meets genuine heart, with enough laughs per page to make reading in public a social hazard.

And here’s the secret to eight books that never run out of gas: it doesn’t stay one man’s story. What begins as a timid shopkeeper’s reluctant collision with destiny grows, book by book, into a family saga — Chauncy’s quest hands off to the next generation, each of his impossible children dragged into a destiny of their own. Same bawdy “dear reader” voice from the first page to the last… and a great deal more heart by the end.