Paragon Society (Delaney)

Orson Reid: college freshman, gamer, and quite possibly the legendary boogeyman of the magical world. And you thought your life was weird. It all started the night Orson kissed his best friend, Elyse, and she kissed him back. Yes, the kiss was life changing, but in ways Orson never could have imagined. It seems he contracted a "virus" that is making him taller, faster, and stronger. But his life doesn't go completely off the rails until the night Elyse shows up at his house, strips out of her clothes, and shape-shifts into a giant cat-a panther, to be exact. Now, instead of preparing for his freshman year of college, Orson is tossed head first into a world where shape-shifters, magic, and monsters are real. A world ruled by the secretive Paragon Society, a group that enforces magical law with brutal efficiency. And if all that wasn't enough for one guy to deal with, Orson may just be the Ollphiest, the legendary monster that even monsters fear.

Shape-shifters, battle mages, and blood magic-wielding bad guys, or, as Orson Reid calls it-Tuesday. Luckily for Orson, the rumors are true, he is the Ollphiest, the monster that even monsters fear. Now, as the newest member of the Paragon Society, Orson is eyeballs deep in a crash course on battle magic. He spends his days training with Lucy, who attempts to slice, dice, and set him on fire. Seriously. So, when the Society directs them to check out a possible rogue magic user in Northern California, Orson is more than happy for the break. 350 miles north of Los Angeles, a college sophomore, in a desperate attempt at love, has unwittingly unleashed chaos, placing Orson and Lucy on a collision course with mayhem.

A secret society of mages and shape-shifters is at war with blood magic-wielding bad-guys. It would be super cool if the world weren't, you know, in danger of being overrun by evil buttheads. When the Paragon Society needs a situation contained, they call in their top battle mage, Lucy, a dual-blade wielding, fireball throwing, kicker of butts. But a traumatic injury has fractured Lucy's psyche, leaving her trapped deep inside her subconscious. The Society and her friends are desperate to save her and are willing to try anything. The devised plan seems simple enough; Orson and the gang will get magicked into Lucy's mind, locate her, and bring her out. Yeah, right. Lucy's mind has gone into protection mode, perceiving any rescue attempt as a threat and the last place anyone wants to be is on the wrong side of a pissed-off battle mage.

What happens when you accidentally bring one of the world's most powerful blood-mages back from the dead? Orson Reid and his friends are about to find out. But first they'll need to deal with the Paragon Society's ever-growing web of lies, an ancient shape-shifter blood sport and a very unexpected display of magic ability-but not necessarily in that order. Whoever said being the good guys was easy, was dead wrong. And to complicate things even further, it seems that somebody is getting really close to fusing cutting-edge technology with magic. All hell is about to break loose. Can Orson and the gang survive the coming storm?

Orson and his friends are heading for an epic magical showdown, and not everyone will make it out alive. The millennia-old Paragon Society is on the brink of destruction. The heart of its power has been reduced to rubble, most of the leadership killed, and Marcus, the blood-mage, is once again on the loose, wreaking havoc. It feels like the bad guys are winning. All hope is not lost. Heidi Aldridge, a reformed blood-mage, may hold the key to unraveling the genetic code that is the very foundation of magic. And deep in the forests of the Rocky Mountains, an ancient evil, long thought eradicated is stirring. Will its connection to the origins of the Ollphiest, shatter everything Orson has come to believe in and trust?

A thrilling prequel to the unputdownable Paragon Society series Fireball blasting battlemages, shapeshifting soccer moms, and a best friend who is more than happy to throw punches now and ask questions later, Wyatt Murphy is in for a supernatural thrill ride of reality-bending proportions. If he can just avoid the school bully, survive the big dance, and outrun blood-magic wielding bad guys, his night may turn out great.