Jay Michael Night
Description
The Source of Death is a young adult coming-of-age fantasy about a teen named Mikey Black who lost his parents at five when monsters with glowing eyes
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attacked them at a rest stop. That terrible night, something had awoken inside of Mikey. Something hungry. Orphaned and alone, he spent years being tossed between foster homes, never lasting more than a month. Everyone around Mikey begins to get sick. Deathly sick. All Mikey wanted were answers. Why was he radioactive? What were those twisted creatures? But Mikey had resigned to never finding the truth or a place to belong. Until the day a kind-hearted mailman named Arthur offered to adopt him. But Mikey's new foster father had a secret...When an accidental headbutt at his new school ends in an attack with strange magic, Mikey begins to unravel the truth about who and what he really is.
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