Henry just wanted what most others want, a home and family. To live in peace away for the desert mayhem that still haunts his dreams. Returning home he may have found it until the magicians showed up threatening his new idyllic life, his new found friends and especially the boys he has come to befriend. There is a lot more to the magicians than meets the eye. They are Xacarbas inhabiting host human bodies, and they need a new one before they move on.