Scientists don't find the first signs of life on Mars--Wizards do.
Young wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan are part of an elite team investigating the mysterious "message in a bottle" that holds clues to the long-lost inhabitants of Mars. But not even wizardry is enough to cope with the strange events that unfold when the "bottle" is uncorked and life emerges once more to shake the Red Planet with its own perilous and baffling brand of magic.
The good news is that the Martians seem friendly. The bad news is that now they're free to pick up on a long-dormant plan that could change the shape of more than one world. Kit's fascination with all things Martian unexpectedly enmeshes him in a terrible, age-old conflict, turning him into both a possible key to its solution and a tool which in the wrong hands threatens the human race. Only Kit has a shot at defeating the threat. But when he vanishes from the Mars of here and now, his fellow wizards are uncertain where his true loyalties lie.
Nita's determination to find the truth--and Kit--sends her into a battle against an implacable enemy who may be conquerable only by violating wizardry's most basic tenets. As the shadow of interplanetary war stretches ever more darkly over both worlds, Kit and Nita must master the ancient synergy binding them to Mars and its last inhabitants. If they fail, the history that left Mars lifeless will repeat itself on Earth.
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Scientists don't find the first signs of life on Mars--Wizards do.
Young wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan are part of an elite team investigating the mysterious "message in a bottle" that holds clues to the long-lost inhabitants of Mars. But not even wizardry is enough to cope with the strange events that unfold when the "bottle" is uncorked and life emerges once more to shake the Red Planet with its own perilous and baffling brand of magic.
The good news is that the Martians seem friendly. The bad news is that now they're free to pick up on a long-dormant plan that could change the shape of more than one world. Kit's fascination with all things Martian unexpectedly enmeshes him in a terrible, age-old conflict, turning him into both a possible key to its solution and a tool which in the wrong hands threatens the human race. Only Kit has a shot at defeating the threat. But when he vanishes from the Mars of here and now, his fellow wizards are uncertain where his true loyalties lie.
Nita's determination to find the truth--and Kit--sends her into a battle against an implacable enemy who may be conquerable only by violating wizardry's most basic tenets. As the shadow of interplanetary war stretches ever more darkly over both worlds, Kit and Nita must master the ancient synergy binding them to Mars and its last inhabitants. If they fail, the history that left Mars lifeless will repeat itself on Earth.