COMING SOON
THE SECOND INSTALLMENT IN Merlyn’s Modern Problems picks up shortly after Merlyn’s Mistake as Vivica, Sir Frankie, Merlyn, Sofia and of course Smedly find themselves much needed in a world abruptly incorporating the return of magics into its civilization.
Stock markets destabilize as the world adjusts to the presence of ambient magic,functional wishes and the newly re-awakening conscience of man. Merlin and his team come in at the behest of Percy to solve a small horticultural problem for a super-secret investment society dating to before the East-India Trading Company. What they find has roots so deep they have been poisoning Faerie itself. And Merlyn has been unwittingly culpable for centuries.
Money carries its own kind of glamour and despite being little more than trader’s symbology it takes on very literal power. Vast energies pool and tide, shift with the markets and for quite a while those who manipulate these forces have been nearly unchallenged in their control over the fates of men, the destinies of nations and the utilization of the planet’s resources.
What begins as a raucous adventure on the streets of magical Manhattan will take our heroes to the power centers of Europe, the the dark-wood rooms where decisions get made, and at last into the mind-bending understanding that money does, in fact, grow on trees. Well, one in particular. And that tree is in desperate need of rescue.