When unusual powers kindle inside them, Conner, Lexa, and Melanie discover that their teachers are powerful magi too and the students are exhilarated to add fighting evil to their daily classes--until the dark forces of the Umbra kidnap Melanie's young sister as part of a grotesque experiment.
Contents
Strange things -- Weirder and seirder -- Awkward silences -- The pizza guy -- Demerits -- Escape -- The clash -- Light and dark -- Voices -- Conference call -- Illuminations -- More bad news -- Ignorance and innocence -- Translocation -- The delcidius theorems -- The vision -- Reprise -- Sigils -- Flight of the condor -- The twilight phalanx -- Ambush -- The parent-teacher conference from heck -- The blacks -- Disney World -- It's a small world -- Return of the magi -- The otherwhere -- Conner -- Mockingbird cottage -- The adumbrators -- The shadow box -- Lady nightwing -- Behind the curtain -- Fiery, flying pizzas.
