In the mystical Matobo Hills, Caleb has always felt something watching from inside the stones-ancient power that answers his blood like a heartbeat. Then a smiling stranger arrives with a "blessing" and a soft voice full of promises.
It's a trap.
The conman wizard doesn't just steal Caleb's gift-he rips it out, leaving a hollow where a soul-deep connection used to be. After that, the hills don't feel sacred anymore. They feel wounded. Animals grow skittish. Shadows linger too long. And the people around Caleb start looking at him like he's the curse.
With whispers turning into suspicion-and something darker moving through the land-Caleb runs. But escape only drags him farther into the nightmare: Bulawayo. Cape Town. A ship. South America. Mexico. Each place reveals another stain of the stolen magic, another sign that the thief isn't finished.
Caleb has no power left-only broken visions pulling him toward Sedona, where the earth is said to remember everything... even what was stolen.
And if he fails, the darkness won't stop at Matobo.