Impractical Magus
By Viola Grace
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Forced to join her family for the holidays, Haily settles down to a tropical cruise with too much alcohol and not enough company. While her sisters are trying to find their matches in the highest ranking magical families, Haily gets the buffet. Knocked into the ocean by chance, she finds herself surrounded by sharks and trapped in a war that revolves around her. Shocked into using her powers for the first time, she grows gills, rides sharks and masters a magic that she didn't know she had.
Loki is the shark shifter Alpha and he takes Haily under his fin, showing her that she has nothing to fear about using her talents underwater, and that this is where she was designed to be. In the water, at his side.
Enjoy this Yuletide tale with sexy sharks, deadly dolphins and a water magus who learns to be herself in the nicest way.
Viola Grace
Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.
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Impractical Magus - Viola Grace
Forced to join her family for the holidays, Haily settles down to a tropical cruise with too much alcohol and not enough company. While her sisters are trying to find their matches in the highest ranking magical families, Haily gets the buffet. Knocked into the ocean by chance, she finds herself surrounded by sharks and trapped in a war that revolves around her. Shocked into using her powers for the first time, she grows gills, rides sharks and masters a magic that she didn’t know she had.
Loki is the shark shifter Alpha and he takes Haily under his fin, showing her that she has nothing to fear about using her talents underwater, and that this is where she was designed to be. In the water, at his side.
Enjoy this Yuletide tale with sexy sharks, deadly dolphins and a water magus who learns to be herself in the nicest way.
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Impractical Magus
Copyright © 2010 Viola Grace
ISBN: 978-1-55487-740-9
Cover art by Martine Jardin
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Impractical Magus
A Nexus Chronicle
By
Viola Grace
Dedication
To my family, who doesn’t understand why I write, but is happy for me anyway.
Chapter One
The word fun was being thrown around like a four-letter word and Haily Holly Danvers was not in the mood.
"It will be so much fun to be on a cruise for the holidays!"
"We can have so much fun without having to worry about the neighbours seeing the spell casting."
"Won’t it be fun to spend a cold holiday in a hot climate?"
Her sisters and mother went round and round with their f-word. The dressing for dinner would be fun, the dances and forced events would be fun. Even the matchmaking was causing hysterical giggles at complete random.
Haily brushed her hair and glared at her own reflection. Crappy magic and blue hair—it summed up her life. Too much of everything.
While her mother and sisters used domestic magic to pack, Haily was stuck doing it the mundane way, folding and stuffing. If she used any of the spells that her family was famous for, her underwear would be found in the yard. Three houses away.
Haily, are you ready?
Yes, Mom.
She randomly grabbed dresses from the closet and rammed them into her suitcase. She could iron on the boat.
Muttering, she bounced up and down on the suitcase, stuffing the escapees back inside with a shoehorn. She hauled her luggage down the stairs, snarling silently as her sisters’ luggage minced past her as it travelled through the air with a twisted sway.
April, May and June Danvers were waiting next to their self-packed luggage.
Haily stomped to the circle and gingerly laid her suitcase down. Whew. She didn’t smudge the transport glyph on the floor.
I can’t see why we can’t just take a regular portal.
May was always a little slow on the uptake.
Their mother cleared her throat and looked over at Haily.
Oh, right. The magnification. Sorry, Hail.
Her sister gave her a weak smile.
That’s right. Everyone has to get blasted through a glyph because of me. Let’s just get going, shall we?
She rarely had to explain it