Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse by Kaleb Nation

What if your mother was a criminal? What if her crime was magic? What if magic ran in the family?

Bran Hambric was found alone in a locked bank vault when he was six years old. He doesn’t have a clue how he got there, or any memory of his past. There’s only one explanation: Magic. But magic is outlawed in the Great and Glorious City of Dunce.

Eight years later, a twisted, hissing creature confronts Bran and his foster father, Sewey, on their rooftop. Sewey, not the brightest Duncelander to begin with, believes it’s a gnome. Bran knows otherwise.

Bran soon discovers that whatever leaped onto his roof is connected to the mother he never knew and that Bran himself is the missing link in a plot so secret and evil that those behind it will stop at nothing to hunt him down.

Armed with wands and weapons, Bran’s enemies are about to attack – with all the power of a horrible curse and a terrible crime. Magic won’t be the only law broken in the City of Dunce…

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On the 3rd night of the 3rd month of 2003, fourteen-year-old Kaleb Nation was inspired to begin the story of Bran Hambric, a novel that would take most of his teenage years to write. In early 2007, he finished the first book. It was published on the 9th day of the 9th month of 2009 by Sourcebooks. You can buy the paperback here. The sequel, The Specter Key, will be published on the 10th day of the 10th month of 2010.

You can follow Kaleb on http://www.kalebnation.com. Below, a video of Kaleb reporting completion of The Specter Key.