The Tower Between · A trilogyMagic found
them first.
Seven Australian high schoolers thought their biggest problems were exams and each other. Then they discovered magic is real, were recruited into a secret organisation, and started leading a double life — wielding the very power that threatens their world, without missing curfew.
A whirlwind of an experience that blends the nuance of modern portal fantasy with genuine coming-of-age stakes — and it pays off.
— L.T. MACMAHON
Three books.
One widening crack.
Each book pushes the double life a little further from sustainable. Read them in order — the tower doesn't forgive skipping ahead.
Book one
The Tower Between
Magic finds seven ordinary teenagers — and nothing about their double life will be simple again.
Starting here, the seven discover that magic is real, get recruited into a secret organisation, and begin leading a double life — lying to friends and family while learning to wield the very magic that threatens their world. All while still finding time to pass their exams.
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Book two
The Tower Besieged
The secret war has a body count now — and it's closing in.
As the trilogy continues, the teens learn that magical creatures aren't the only threat to their world's safety. The line between their two lives gets harder to hold, and the cost of keeping the secret starts climbing.
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Book Three
The Tower Broken
Everything they fought to protect finally has a price.
In the trilogy's conclusion, the seven face hard decisions about their place in this world — and what it will actually cost them to take it. Not everyone walks away from a tower between two worlds unchanged.
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13 KINDS OF MAGIC
At every market and signing, Mark hands readers a card face-down — one of thirteen magics, each with its own colour and personality. Flip it, and you find out which one is yours. That same interactive reveal is coming to the site soon.
DISCOVER YOUR MAGIC
Meet the sevenThe Tower Between cast
Seven friends, seven magics, one secret none of them can afford to drop.
● Life MagicZACK
Zack is intuitive and intelligent, but also distractable and not particularly motivated to achieve in his final years of high school.
He’s more interested in gaming, watching movies and brooding on his longtime and unrequited crush on Charlie. And recently, his grandmother has started losing her slow battle with cancer.
Life magic, with its potential to heal, might be the answer to all of his problems, or it might just be one more than he’s too distracted to get right.
● Mind MagicArt
Art is Zack’s best friend, and where Zack is unmotivated, Art has a thousand new ideas to throw himself at each week. He was already planning for this year to be the time to pull the two up from their low rung on the social ladder toward popularity and excitement.
And now, with Mind magic, that might be all the more possible.
● Air MagicTabitha
Tabitha is popular, with adults and her peers alike. A natural born leader and volunteer with a sense of responsibility, and with the expectation of being school captain in her next and final year of high school.
Although now, with all the potential that Air magic brings, her priorities might be shifting.
● Fire MagicKimmy
Kimmy might best be described as ‘not for everybody.’
But that doesn’t bother her, because she’s for her. She smart, competitive, achieves what she sets out to and doesn’t compromise. That extends to her romantic life where she takes what she wants before moving on.
Fire magic might be a logical fit, but is the world ready for her to have access to it?
● Animal MagicCharlie
Charlie Charlie is friendly, intuitive and avoids making waves. She’s been coasting through high school, looking ahead to a time when she’ll be free and able to travel the world.
She’s not sure about Animal magic, but it’s forcing her to shake things up and have a real look at what she’s doing with her life.
● Movement MagicBast
Bast is athletic and popular, if there’s a game on or a team looking for members, he’s there. He’s First Nations Australian and gay, and openly proud of both, holding himself to the standards of what those identities mean to him.
Movement magic fits right in for him, and if he gets a little boost of speed of the field, that’s not cheating, that’s just using his talents.
● Protection MagicJackie
Jackie is the youngest of the teens, something her small stature and shyness emphasises. Art is her older brother, and he’s tall and loud enough to give her the safe space away from too much attention.
And now with Protection magic, she can not only provide herself with some of that safety, but be ready to protect her brother when he inevitably needs it.