About
Magic Strikes Thrice is a speculative fantasy and time travel series that asks what it means to be real. It all begins and ends with the events of Night Gods.
LGBTQIA+ cast and hilariously non-spicy romance (when everyone’s old enough).
Content warnings for death and grieving, when we get there. Fair doses of body horror (transformation hijinks and miscast spells), but little blood or gore.
Ken Vale, by all accounts, shouldn’t have magic.
For the record, It chose him. He was also given a haunted pendant that won’t stay lost, and don’t get him started on the giant feathers. Bad things really did come in threes, like his Mum always said.
He’d never believed her bedtime stories though, about griffins holding the strings of fate. Now that he’s fifteen, the arm-length feathers appearing in his path are like someone rubbing in a bad joke. Ken knows his destiny begins with studying music in the Capitol, not bumbling through magic on some remote cliff. He’s about ready to give the divine beast that picked this fate a piece of his mind. Politely, of course. He’d prefer to keep living.
Real mages and their royal courts are beginning to notice Ken, and not because of his skill with the lute. Deep down, he’s got a bad feeling that learning why his odd magic works will have dire consequences.
He and those winged watchers really need to have a chat. Legends say griffins are attracted to time magic.
How hard could that be, truly?
EB Shirley 