The Last of the Magi: Book I: The Devouring by George S Elli

When a tarot card reading warns of ancient evils and a coming darkness, Mila, an orphaned Gypsy, is forced to confront his true destiny. When he recklessly ignores the prophesy, a sinister twist of fate brings two American teenagers into his world: Mila is instantly infatuated with Casey, a beautiful heiress, whose piercing blue eyes hide an inner pain, but much to his dismay, Jack her clever and resourceful classmate seems to be the object of her affection. The three teens accidentally plunge into a world of dark secrets within Berlin’s abandoned underground tunnels. There, they uncover a magical artifact of immense power once wielded by some of history’s cruelest tyrants. Looking to possess these powers, a sinister cult unleashes a shadow army to hunt for this unholy relic. Mila and his new friends must flee across the German countryside now burdened with unlocking the mysteries of the artifact’s powers and uncovering the lost history of an ancient gypsy tribe and it’s war with the Third Reich.Our heroes’ epic journey takes them through a world of characters straight from the mind of a gypsy mystic: a disgraced ex-Mossad agent, twin boys who bring light and joy to an otherwise bleak gypsy ghetto, A coal miner’s son drawn into a nationalist cult, a priest recklessly meddling in gypsy affairs, a streetwise pickpocket from the slums of Romania, A washed up, arm-wrestling fortune teller, and an elusive hermit who hides forbidden knowledgeThe Last of the Magi weaves action and fantasy together with true history and authentic Gypsy spiritualism leaving the reader to wonder what’s real and what’s not. Read less