Brad Wist

Author

At the intersection of faith, science, and magic, everything is possible.

Children of the Sun

Where quantum physics and ancient aether collide

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Children of the Sun

In Blacksburg, Virginia, two young mages are drawn into conflict with a local religious cult in order to prevent large scale destruction. Matt Timmons, a guarded Texan gifted with empathy and illusion, still scarred by a difficult childhood in Austin, and Jacinder “Jae” Mashwari, an Indian-American quantum-physics grad student who manipulates the aether—the sub-reality energy field beneath creation—while balancing science, her Catholic faith, and magic.Following the theft of magical stones from a local jewelry store, the two students begin investigating, knowing the police will not be able to handle a magical threat. Their investigation leads them to the leader of a local religious group, the Children of the Sun. Matt and Jae discover that the leader, High Arch Sammels, is a fire elemental who has been trapped on Earth for hundreds of years. He has a way home; a ritual that threatens to crack reality itself.Jae and Matt race to stop Sammels from completing his ritual. Jae’s understanding of magic and physics offers a plan. Matt’s skill with illusions reinforced with empathic magic provides the way. It all comes crashing together in a high-stakes, climactic battle.

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About

Brad Wist is an aerospace engineer and software architect in Leesburg, Virginia. A Virginia Tech graduate, he has published a technical book (Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 Pocket Consultant, Microsoft Press, 2001), contributed to another, and authored more than a dozen technical articles. He now channels that same rigorous thinking into fiction, crafting character-driven contemporary fantasy that explores the collision of science, myth, and magic. CHILDREN OF THE SUN is his debut and the launch of the Ordo Aethenion series.

Brad is currently working on Book 2 of the Ordo Aethenion series, and plotting novels in various SF/F genres.