A modern American fantasy series

Wild Magic USA

Wade Harlan was a ranch kid with a dog, a truck, and a talent for finding trouble. Then his path crossed Silas Crowder’s, and Wade discovered he carried Wyrd power — power from the Mother, old as the ground beneath him and far harder to control. Now cryptids, hidden magic, old roads, dangerous bargains, and one stubborn springer spaniel are dragging him into the secret heart of the modern American West.

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Wild Magic USA
Book One

Salt Dogs

The first Wild Magic USA novel introduces Wade Harlan, Tweak, Crowder, and a hidden world under Salt Lake City where old power still runs beneath the streets.

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Salt Dogs

Wade Harlan knows cattle country, bad ground, hard weather, and the kind of trouble a man can see coming if he pays attention. What he does not know is that the world has older rules than fences, roads, and county lines.


When Wade is pulled into a hidden conflict beneath the modern West, he discovers old roads, cryptids, Wyrd power, and enemies willing to twist living things into weapons. With Tweak at his side and Crowder dragging him through lessons he barely understands, Wade has to learn fast — because some things under the city are already learning how to find him.

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The world beneath the road

Modern streets. Older rules.

Wild Magic USA blends gritty urban fantasy with ranch-country realism, hidden American folklore, cryptid survival, and the uneasy cost of power.

Wyrd power

Magic with weight

Power in this world is old, practical, dangerous, and rarely clean. It moves through earth, salt, water, blood, thresholds, bargains, pressure, and need. It does not behave like stage magic. It has cost.

Hidden creatures

Cryptids in the margins

Some beings survive because humans do not see them clearly. Some keep to rivers, culverts, ruins, storm drains, and forgotten places. Some are gentle. Some are not. Most have reasons.

Old roads

Paths under the city

The roads people drive are not always the oldest roads. Beneath modern life are routes, thresholds, and hidden passages that remember who used them first — and what was promised there.

Core cast

The Salt Dogs

A ranch kid, a dog who understands more than she should, and a mentor with more secrets than patience.

Wade Harlan

The ranch kid with old power

Wade comes from hard country, practical work, and problems solved with tools, grit, and nerve. Then the ground starts answering him, and he has to learn that power is not the same thing as control.

Tweak

The dog who changes the room

Tweak is loyal, sharp, stubborn, and far more important than anyone expects. Around hidden creatures, she becomes a bridge where humans would only be a threat.

Crowder

The teacher with no softness to waste

Crowder knows the old rules, the cost of mistakes, and how little time Wade has to learn. He does not explain kindly. Sometimes he barely explains at all. But he sees more than he says.

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