Games Wizards Play

Every eleven years, Earths senior wizards hold the Invitational an intensive three-week event where the planets newest, sharpest young wizards show off their best and hottest spells. Wizardly partners Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan, and Nitas sister, former wizard-prodigy Dairine Callahan, are drafted in to mentor two brilliant and difficult cases for Nita and Kit, theres Penn Shao-Feng, a would-be sun technician with a dangerous new take on managing solar weather and for Dairine, theres shy young Mehrnaz Farrahi, an Iranian wizard-girl trying to specialize in defusing earthquakes while struggling with a toxic extended wizardly family that demands she perform to their expectations. Together theyre plunged into a whirlwind of cutthroat competition and ruthless judging.