Call of the Void (Paperback or Softback)

The Empire of the Black Suns is a young adult series centred around a paranormal magic system, in which destiny forces the meeting of a group of teens who must fight for their right to preserve their community's way of life.

Blurb: Have you ever felt totally compelled to do something? Like, beyond all reason, if you didn't sit down to shove that whole sandwich into your mouth, something terrible would happen? Maybe holding your ass down to that chair made you a millisecond late to cross the street, stopping you from getting run over.
Well, my life was never immune to the strange, but at a fateful party in the hot January of 1998, I was to see that these urges, these calls from the void, were to lead me down a stranger path than I ever could have bargained for. I, James Grey, humble avoider of danger, King of hyperbole, and sufferer of extreme social ineptitude, had to make new friends, and with them discover new truths about myself and the world. All of which, we found, were about to end.