When Manuel is hassled by high school basketball player Latrell, he decides to teach Latrell a lesson in humility on the court. Sure, soccer is Manuel's sport not basketball, and Latrell is several inches taller, but Manuel isn't worried. What Latrell doesn't know is that Manuel is something more than human.On the white painted veranda of a post colonial Bombay hotel, two men meet in the stifling heat of the approaching monsoon. They are a generation apart and their ideologies diverge but they share the same turbulent moment in time; a time of upheaval and monumental shift that is changing their world and unveiling the dawn of an uncertain future.But the storm clouds that gather over world events are also forming over their own private worlds as they confront each other with questions of their past and their future; questions they would prefer not to face.

Lizzie and Manuel live worlds apart.Lizzie is about to learn the family business: banishing fugitive spirits—ghosts, demons, and fairy folk--from the Earth.Manuel is not an ordinary boy. On the field he is a soccer phenom and in secret he is a Magician's apprentice.Lizzie and Manuel live worlds apart, but together they have a common enemy: a sorcerer who is hell bent on ruling the world.Manuel is a soccer phenom on the field and off the field a magician’s apprentice—an apprentice to a real magician, not a pull-the-rabbit-out-of-the-hat kind. This magician can knock things off the table from across the room using his mind. You see, the magician isn’t an ordinary human, and neither is Manuel.Lizzie has long since figured out where the presents under the Christmas tree come from, and she knows that tiny, winged ladies with wands don't really pay cash for baby teeth. Only little kids believe in fairies and elves. But Lizzie's world is about to be turned upside down. She is about to learn that the legends of old are not all make-believe. She is about to discover the ancient and powerful artifact that is her family legacy. And she is about to join the family business--a never-ending mission to remove from Earth all fugitive spirits.Manuel and Lizzie and live worlds apart, but a sorcerer with plans to rule the world needs something they each have, and he is hellbent upon getting what he wants.

“Who is Kracken?”“No one. He never was.”Lizzie’s cousins have moved into a large old home. It’s a nice place, but it seems it had already been occupied by a spirit named Kracken. Lizzie has a job to do...her first job since facing the sorcerer in Spear Bearer Book 1. But for Lizzie being a Spear Bearer isn’t getting any easier.“Who is Kracken?” “No one. He never was.” Several weeks have passed since the events of Spear Bearer Book 1. Lizzie’s family is spending Thanksgiving with her mom’s sister’s family in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The family recently moved into a large old home. Not too long after they arrive, Lizzie’s four-year-old cousin Masi begins to talk about her ‘imaginary’ friend Kracken. Lizzie’s dad guesses that the friend is actually a Lost Soul—a ghost. Lizzie has a job to do...her first job since facing the sorcerer in Spear Bearer Book 1. But for Lizzie, being a Spear Bearer isn’t getting any easier.