How can a girl become the most powerful magus when she can’t even cast the simplest of spells? This is the destiny and dilemma of Max Quigley. Will she learn how to be impervious to spells and outwit the prophecy foretelling her death? In a world where magic, illusion and deception reign, will she recognize the truth? The story mixes ancient sufi wisdom, eastern mysticism, western folk lore and quantum science to create a magical world filled with unusual characters who impart hints and clues to empower both Max and the reader to break free from spells of negative illusion. Everything in Max’s world could be a spell to delude her or a trigger to wake her up to who she is as a powerful magus. Battling both the spells thrown at her and the spells from within, Max has to fight the professors conducting heinous experiments being done on children. Can she save them when the authority wants Max dead? They know she is different from everyone else. They know she can see bird spirits attached to everyone when they cannot. All Max knows is that she has to uncover the mystery of the bird spirits to survive.