A HEALER’S JOURNEY

The Six Magicians Book 1

By: STEVE LANGLEY

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

The Six Magicians is primarily the story of Toba, an abused child, self-named Callanan AnKimbo aka Callie in a world where only men can be magi. She grows up to be a sociopath and the most powerful magus in her world. The world in question is earthlike with seven moons, three of which are easily visible to the eye. The people are a mix of humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes, and secretly dragons who can shape change into other forms. Magic on this world comes from the planet and due to hormones, is vastly more powerful in men than women. Callie does a healing on herself that has an accidental side effect of removing her blockage to magic. Despite her lack of human feeling and respect for life she somehow manages to not become a total monster. Long ago, two factions of magi fighting to the death to determine which of them shall rule the world have been trapped together in an artifact designed to hold its captives until the end of time. They manage to subtly influence the world outside the artifact to bring to them magi who might be able to reverse the magic. Time after time they fail, only to trap others. Others who they swiftly destroy and consume. In the first volume of this spellbinding saga, A Healer's Journey, it is thousands of years later and a new chance of escape starts to emerge. Callie, abused and broken, is given a taste of gentle love, trained as a healer, and then is plunged again into a hellish world of abuse. Meg and Tal, a pair of siblings who grew nearly to adulthood with absent parents are suddenly part of a whole family again. With Saritha, their mother, Domillo, their father, and Reagin, their mother’s companion, they start on a journey that will change them and their rivalry. The Silent One, an aging sage who comes across a map that might lead to an ancient treasure collects a small group of mercenary adventurers to help him in his search. Kite and Krin, two young dragons in love, accidentally become hunted prey of an obsessed magus. Jeri, their eggling, is born in human form and immediately orphaned. His only friend is Wolfie, a dire wolf cub who he raised from birth while living with Ander, the man who found him newborn. These are the people whose stories, even though taking place in separate times, intertwine toward freeing the six who only want to destroy and rule. Steve Langley is a long-time fan of fantasy and science fiction who lives in the North West. He was one half of the team behind the pseudonym "Fredric Davies," credited as author of the bestselling Man from U.N.C.L.E. novel, The Cross of Gold Affair.