M.A. Brotheton

Terry Howard, Acolyte of Midnight and Key-Bearer has spent two years getting used to his new life as a consultant for the Secret Service Meta-Crimes Division. He's finally found something he can be good at and help those around him.
But, when a new case gets a little too close to home, Terry is forced to accept that some friends aren't what they seem and everyone has their own way of dealing with their past.

All Terry Howard wanted to do was show his apprentice a good time, but when you're spending the weekend at the world's first magical convention things are bound to go wrong.

Terry picked a bad time to quit smoking. Just as things in his life were starting to calm down, a tragedy strikes a small town high school, and Terry has to find the truth behind it.

With Gabriel and Suez’s wedding looming, having a bit more free time probably isn’t a bad thing. But for Terry Howard, Acolyte of Midnight, being forced to sit on the sidelines might be too much. The new Head of Security for the Ozarks Spiritual Sovereignty has his own way of doing things, and they don’t involve Terry.

Wedding bring everyone together. Old friends. Old enemies.

And of course… the dead.

When a pair of drunks turn up eaten, Sheriff Langley finds himself as the only thing standing between humanity and the return of the thunder lizards from beyond the stars.

Three years have passed since the war between the Six Orders, the ancient societies governing magic and nineteen-year-old Terry Howard, Acolyte of the Midnight Order is just trying to live a life as close to normal as possible. With the support of the few people in the world he hasn't alienated, that almost seems possible.

But when his ex, Carrie, asks him to look into a magic related suicide and his mentor, Stanley, announces his retirement, Terry is forced deal with his emotional baggage before everything he's managed to build gets torn away.