Used To Be, Lightning Chuck

By Christopher Watson

Against fan demand, Lightning Chuck Wilson abandoned his title as Ultimate Magus and went into retirement when his spell-dueling federation collapsed. Ten years later, Chuck runs a magical pawn shop and lives in seclusion. Still, lucrative offers to pull him out of retirement never stop. Though the grandeur of the past is behind him, how can Chuck refuse a demon with dominion over his son’s soul?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christopher Watson
• Release date: Feb 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781625380098

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USED TO BE

Copyright © 2013 by Christopher Watson

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Published 2013 by Elsewhere Publishing

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This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

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Kay McGarvey

USED TO BE

CHUCK WILSON SET the rubber-banded deck of playing cards on the glass display case full of cheap, low-level one-shot trinkets. He rubbed his steel collar and considered the kid.

Even if the disheveled young man in his green, hooded rain slicker had not reeked of garlic, the golden halos around his irises screamed. Out of sight and downwind, the sad story of