Evan Reid is unexpectedly facing the worst summer ever when his parents suddenly pack across the country for new jobs.
Now he’s friendless in a big new city and far from the only faces and places he’s ever known. And all this right before his first year of middle-school!
Everything is terrible.
That is until Evan stumbles across The Wizards’ Attic, a strange hobby shop, filled with even stranger games and books, set up in a house that somehow transports about the neighbourhood.
Evan is soon obsessed. But what he really can’t stop thinking about are the strange shouts and sounds coming from behind the curtain that reads “Staff Only—Keep Out!”
When, one day, curiosity gets the best of him, Evan discovers the impossible. Now he’s in for the best summer of his lifetime…if he can only hold on!
Middle-Grade Fantasy – 139,000 words
Status: Complete. Currently querying publishers.
Chapters & Excerpts
The tall, dark wizard in the blue robe with white stars—who Evan would come to know as Falstaff—
plucked the slurpee off Evan’s tray with long boney fingers. He peered deep into its sugary murk. “Explain this foul potion. What are its effects?” “It’s called a slurpee,” Evan said. “It’s a refreshing drink. Especially when it’s hot out.” A round of knowing ahhhhhs circled the room. “A health elixir,” someone spoke from the…
A SILHOUETTE LOOMED OVER EVAN. FROM SOMEWHERE, A DISTANT, UNPLEASANT VOICE—ONE HE RECOGNIZED—SPOKE:
“Hey kid. Kid. Wake up.” Evan stirred, the world coming into focus: the dark walls and ceiling of the Attic’s storefront, the towering bookshelves of games, a smacking sound as the figure hovering over him slapped at Evan’s cheeks. Evan’s bones and back groaned. Then Evan groaned at the sight of the City Surveyor’s weasel…