Two eleven-year-old misfits try to solve the mystery of a dead magician and stop the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais, who are searching for the secret of immortality. This is the story of a secret, and also a secret story. This is the story of Cass and Max-Ernest, two friendless 11-year olds who come together to solve the mystery surrounding a dead magician and the clues he left behind. When they find a mysterious case containing vials of liquid labeled...

Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate -- to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made -- through a series of quests that might make her immortal.