Stray Magic (Faerene Apocalypse Book 1)

Loved Stray Magic
Amelia ” Amy” Carlton was a 20 year old college student, working at a summer camp when the Faerene Apocalypse happened. It stated with sightings of beasts from myth and legend. The camp closed, but Amy stayed. She found a job helping on a homestead owned by a widow in her 60s.
Then the red dragon mane the announcement of what was going to happen before he ate the Fukushima Nuclear Plant. Stella and Amy knew that this was real, not some Hollywood type stunt. Together they put together a survival plan and recruited 20 year army vet, Alston “Digger” Graves, local man Jarod, a 20 something handyman, and a favorite of Stella’s, along with his older brother Craig and their father Mike, retired military, and local mechanic. Then 31 year a former fire fighter. Niamh, makes her way to the area and joins the homestead.
The Faerene came to fix a rift in the Earth’s protective shield. Earth had come to the attention of the Kstum, an insectoid race who saw Earth and her people as a breeding ground for their people. The magic needed to close the rift required the Faerene to returned recourses to the Earth. Life for the human race became like it was during the Renaissance. Only a billion humans survived the devastation that followed.
Amy and her small new family managed to not only survive, but thrive and were helping those in the small town they lived outside of. Amy learned whatever she could from everyone around her. Digger is like a father. Jarod and Craig the brother she never had. Mike like an uncle. Stella as close as a grandmother. Niamah, a big sister and good friend. 6 months later the Copper dragon came for Amy.
Magic has been found in some of the humans. Wild magic poses a threat to the newly repaired rift. An antient practice has been introduced. The humans must be trained and bound as a Familiar to a compatible magician or they must die.
Amy adapts the best she can to her new reality. The training is exhausting. Her instructors are empathetic. She is befriended by Timeke, a female elf magician, who is there waiting to bond with a familiar. Her unicorn instructor, Melinda, takes great care in tutoring those in her charge. Amy’s unique outlook and how she sees the Faerene, ender her to many. Rory, powerful Alpha wolf and magician and well respected solider, takes great interest in Amy.
Drastic measures are taken when the humans are not progressing with devastating consequences. Amy come through but not unscathed. The powerful black griffin magistrate, Istvan, sees her struggle and offers her comfort. He is not sure what drew him to her. It is clear that they are a match. Amy is not what Istvan wanted in a familiar. He take the oath he swears to her seriously.
Amy has a talent to accept and be accepted. Istvan trades territory so Amy can been in the territory she is from. He makes it possible for her to have contact with her adopted human family. Rory volunteers to captain his guard. He is starting his own pack, where all are welcome. Amy has captured the attention of the Faerene, she sees them as people, different, an different is just that, different.
A great start to the series. Love the world building. Great characters, can’t wait to see what happens next.