The chosen one grew up. It didn't stick.
Fifteen years ago, Jasmine Cowl and her friends were the teenagers who destroyed the Three and saved both worlds - the magical one and the one that never noticed. Now she's thirty-five, a federal agent in the magical government, married to a wereboar civil-rights lawyer, raising four kids, and carpooling in a minivan with an ancient djin trapped in the steering column. He is not happy about it. The van has recently developed the personality of an Australian shepherd. He is even less happy about that.
Then a routine sports-doping case unravels into something older and angrier: Crankflint Kairnscow, a gnome with a genius for earth magic and a grief eighty years deep, is coming for the one thing his people have always been denied - wands. And he knows exactly who will stand in his way. So before his war even begins, he takes the one thing that will stop them.
Their children.
Turned to crystal. Hidden away. Meant to keep the Irregulars on the sidelines - the one move guaranteed to do the opposite.
Jasmine Cowl has been a hero, a soldier, and a legend. Kairnscow is about to learn what she's like as a mother.
A story about found family, second acts, and what the powerless will do to be heard - Jasmine Cowl and the Salagi Talking Stick is Book One of the Jasmine Cowl series.