GUARD BROOKLYN, FIGHT MONSTERS, TAUNT BAD GUYS.
What would you do if you lost everything that mattered to you, as well
as all means to protect yourself and others, but still had to save the
day? Conrad Brent is about to find out.
Conrad Brent protects the people of Brooklyn from monsters and magical
threats. The snarky, wisecracking guardian also has a dangerous secret:
he's one in a million - literally.
Magical ability comes to about one in every 30,000 and can manifest at
any age. Conrad is rarer than this, however. He's a middling, one of the
half-gifted and totally despised. Most of the gifted community feels
that middlings should be instantly killed. The few who don't flat out
hate them still aren't excited to be around middlings. Meaning Conrad
can't tell anyone, not even his best friends, what he really is.
Conrad hides in plain sight by being a part of the volunteer Watch,
those magically gifted who protect their cities from dangerous, arcane
threats. And, to pay the bills, Conrad moonlights as a private detective
and monster hunter for the gifted community. Which helps him keep up his
personal fiction - that he's a magical version of Batman. Conrad does
both jobs thanks to charms, artifacts, and his wits, along with copious
amounts of coffee. But little does he know that events are about to
change his life...forever.
When Conrad discovers the Traveling Fair auction house has another
middling who's just manifested her so-called powers on the auction
block, he's determined to save her, regardless of risk. But what he
finds out while doing so is even worse - the winning bidder works for a
company that's just created the most dangerous chemical weapon to ever
hit the magical community.
Before Conrad can convince anyone at the Watch of the danger, he's
exposed for what he really is. Now, stripped of rank, magical objects,
friends and allies, Conrad has to try to save the world with only his
wits. Thankfully though, no one's taken away his coffee.
