In the world of Mariopa, everyone is a magician. Even animals and plants use the ever present magical stuff some of the inhabitants call pollen to enhance their lives. For fourteen-year-old Sam Smith, it is a huge problem. Lightning went through his five-year-old body nine years ago and burned out his ability to manipulate pollen. He became, in that life-defining moment, a boy without magic in a world filled with it and he is still struggling with the aftereffects. He is banished from his home and goes on a village tour with a friendly healer to find that life outside his home town is filled with more adventure, peril, and promise than he ever imagined.

Edition 2 is updated with a change in the initial start of the book along with a fresh edit and a new cover more appropriate to the story.