<p><b>From the bestselling author of THE GREATCOATS: seven war mages with dark pasts and special powers must come together to fight an unknown enemy - but the stakes are higher than anyone can imagine . . . and someone''s setting the seven up for a fall.</b><br><br> Picture a wizard. Go ahead, close your eyes. There he is, see? Skinny old guy with a long straggly beard. No doubt he''s wearing iridescent silk robes that couldn''t protect his frail body from a light breeze. The hat''s a must, too, right? Big, floppy thing, covered in esoteric symbols that would instantly show every other mage where this gets his magic? Wouldn''t want a simple steel helmet or something that might, you know, protect the part of him most needed for conjuring magical forces from being bashed in with a mace (or pretty much any household object).<br><br>Yep. Behold the mighty wizard.<br><br>Now open your eyes and let me show you what a <i>real</i> war mage looks like . . . but be warned: you''re probably not g