As the World Falls Down
Prologue: Genesis
It was Tuesday. Nothing ever happened on Tuesdays, especially in mid-August when it was too hot to enjoy sitting in the shade. Yet at 3:42, on this otherwise uneventful Tuesday, everything changed for one mortal teenaged girl named Harper Finkle. And it would never be the same again.
Ever since her best friend had told Harper she was a wizard in training, Harper had become used to living in the presence of magic. Her ex-crush was dating a vampire who was probably older than the pyramids? Sure, okay, no problem. Zombies crashed Prom? Rock on. But this? This was something new.
The change happened so subtly that at first she had hardly noticed it. When she got an odd feeling before the Russos left on vacation to the Caribbean, something in the back of her mind screamed in warning that their trip was going to be disastrous. She had shaken it off, but when Alex called her and told her in a hushed and hurried voice that she had almost destroyed her own family with an angry curse, the hairs on the back of Harper's neck stood up.
She had known. She had known when she most certainly shouldn't have. She was a mortal. Not a single drop of magical blood ran through her veins. It shouldn't have happened. It couldn't have happened. It couldn't.
So she told herself it was a coincidence, and ignored the building sense of dread in her gut.
The day Harper's life changed it was a lazy Tuesday afternoon, hotter than Heck with no relief in sight. Not a whisper of wind blew, not even a breath. The sun glared off the surrounding buildings, magnified by tinted glass and glittering on stone. And there, in the park one Tuesday, Harper Finkle's universe turned inside-out.
She didn't know it, but she was about to help save the world.