These Fated Secrets (The Keys of Illusions Series)

The Hunter’s Guild is merciful.

In a world riddled with war, people sought to destroy magic and its faithful followers. Now, magic is fighting back.

After a long war in the realm of Kalem, people with magic are 2nd class citizens, playthings for the rich and influential. Nineteen-year-old Joseph Price has been a servant for as long as he can remember – a poisoned life, forced day in, day out to work for the very people who claim to hate his very existence.

In one fateful meeting, however, Joseph finds purpose, a spark ignited within him. In a tiny hovel, disregarded by many, Joseph is given a gift: Knowledge of how to return magic to the broken world around him and how to get his freedom.

Legends lost after the war told of four keys that could unlock the secrets of magic. Joseph thought the stories were myths; however, the four beacons scattered around the realm would tell a different story than what the guild would have the world believe.

With the help of some unlikely allies, a hunter he claimed to hate and a woman from a different reality, Joseph finds that the world isn’t as perfect as the Hunter’s Guild wishes it was.

With magic fighting its way back into the world in drips and drabs, Joseph finds that cracks in the reality of their world are starting to form, a decay, a defence mechanism is starting to brew – destroying the realm slowly, carefully, until nothing but dust remains.

Fifty years after the war, magic is fighting back, and it’s Joseph’s choice whether or not to oppose the change or fight to shift the world's perspective on the very thing they tried to destroy.