The Letter Mage: Third Quarto (Letter Mage: Quartos)

Aleph could never have guessed how deeply the Lunar University was broken. Defecting professors. Jealous wizards. Exceedingly handsome enemies. His mother's imprisonment is still burning in Aleph's mind, and he has a thousand complications to deal with. So of course it gets worse: when the Head Researcher of the Helical College goes missing, Aleph is instantly under suspicion. Can he throw himself into his work? Deal with each problem when it comes his way? Or will the secrets of his parents make Aleph do something he regrets? In the third collection of The Letter Mage serial, Aleph battles with mechs, mutants, blackmail, and love. This isn't a story you want to miss. Alexandra Penn was a museum kid. The daughter of a photographer and a Scuba diver, she spent her teenage years in the field: Penn has worked with Smithsonian archaeologists, NASA software engineers, volcanologists, and photographers. She also managed to fail Algebra II with a passing grade, which she's a little proud of. Her work is both a love letter to and an intense criticism of the academic world. She has been bitten by a shark, she watched the final shuttle launch from the fire escape outside Launch Control, and she has been a certified diver since age twelve. She likes dogs, long walks on the beach, and socialized medicine. Also books. Penn is one of two Directors of The Writers' Rooms, an editor for hire, an amateur linguist, and a Taurus. Her work has received many accolades, including an Honorable Mention in the Writer's Digest Annual Contest 2017. She spends all her free time on Twitter.