On July 30th, my husband Peter's dear mother Doris died after a long struggle with heart disease. With this in mind, my online activities are going to be severely curtailed during August. Please bear with me while we attempt to deal with our loss.

Thanks.

Harcourt Trade Publishers has just released the mass-market paperback edition of Wizards at War.

The book is available at Amazon.com, and if you like you can order it here by using this link (or by clicking on the image to the right.)

After returning from a hectic wizardly holiday, Nita and Kit are looking forward to returning to their everyday routine. But there doesn't seem much hope of that what with three other wizards living in Nita's basement, her sister Dairine's computer muttering peculiar prophecies, and Kit's increasingly magical dog Ponch behaving more strangely every day.

And there's far worse trouble brewing. A strange darkness of the mind and heart is about to fall over the older wizards of the world, stealing away their power. Soon the young wizards of Earth and many other planets must defend the people of their worlds -- wizards and non-wizards alike -- against an invasion of a kind they've never imagined...