Nomadin Trilogy

When his magical pencil starts talking back to the school bullies, it's just the beginning of a journey that will force twelve-year-old Ilien Woodhill to choose between saving the world and discovering the truth about himself—a truth that might make him the very evil he's trying to fight. If you love books where young heroes must face impossible choices about power, identity, and destiny, Nomadin will keep you listening late into the night wondering whether the greatest magic of all is simply having the courage to be yourself.

Young Ilien knows nothing of the dark tales told around late-night fires or of the legendary Nomadin wizards and the prophesy that haunts them. But all that is soon to change. For a shadow touches the peaceful land of Nadae. An ancient evil is stirring. Already a NiDemon has crossed from the land of the dead.

Fleeing the Nomadin, Ilien seeks aid from the last person he ever thought would give it. For his father, Gallund, is held prisoner by an enemy immune to Nomadin magic, an enemy who would use him to release an unthinkable evil upon the world. To rescue him, Ilien must forsake all he knows to be true. He must learn a forbidden magic. He must discover who he truly is, or become NiDemon.

Transported to a cursed land, Ilien must seek and destroy the one thing that can never be destroyed. His only hope lies with a horribly deformed child he unknowingly maimed, and a mystical woman whose past is secretly entwined with his. If he succeeds, he may never see his home again. If he fails, he will forever be known as...the Necromancer.