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>b>Book One: Paranoid Mage>/b>
    Callum had seen things all his life. There are monsters and beasts living among people, but helearned very early not toadmit such things, not ifhedidn’t want people tothink him crazy.
    Itturns out that the supernatural isreal, but atthirty Callum has nodesire tobepart ofthat secret. Not that hehas achoice when itturns out heisamage, albeit one that hasn’t cast any spells inall his life. There are requirements, duties, and education that the powers that beinsist hebesubject to.
    Tohell with that.
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    >b>Book Two: Renegade Mage>/b>
    After escaping from the Guild ofArcane Regulation and the Bureau ofSecret Enforcement, Callum has lost his greatest protection: his obscurity. Now the powers that beknow who heis, and hiding isharder than ever. Nor ishiding aplan, just areaction.
    Now Callum isforced todecide how hewants toapproach the supernatural world, and how he’s going tokeep himself secure when the apparatus ofgovernment isarrayed againsthim. Even ifhewanted tolive asamage, that bridge has been thoroughly burned, and even ifhewanted tolive asanormal person, heisfar too deep toclose his eyes towhat he’s seen.
    Hehas tomake his own terms.
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    Paranoid Mage isanurban fantasy but itgoes rather sideways from the normal stuff fairly quickly.
    Chapters are Fridays, 5PM EST, with approximately 5,000 words per chapter.