Books with author Sam Walker

When Melantha Caldwell turns sixteen she will come into her spell-turner powers. It should be the happy event she'd looked forward to her whole life, but Mel no longer wants anything to do with magic. A sorcerer killed her mother. She just wants to be a normal fifteen year old, living a normal life in Ottawa, doing normal things like going to high school, and having a boyfriend. Being a teen girl with a social life is not something Mel's Gran will let her have. So when an elf from the Magic Council arrives to ask Mel to help him catch her mother's killer, Mel tells him she's not interested. But in the asking, the elf reveals that Mel attends the same school as the son of the killer. This has her intrigued because the boy happens to be the wimpiest kid in school. And when the elf offers to take away Mel's overbearing Gran so she can get the job done, Mel agrees. It's finally her chance to experience some freedom, to live a normal life. If only it were that simple . . . If Mel doesn't catch the sorcerer, he will succeed in his plan to remove magic from all spell-turners, and as much as she hates magic, Mel knows she can't let the sorcerer succeed or she'll lose everyone she cares about. Forever.

Just weeks after a sorcerer killed her mother, fifteen year old Melantha is asked to help catch the killer. She wants nothing to do with it, but then she learns one of her classmates is the son of the sorcerer. Worried for her classmate, Mel agrees. With her spell-turner powers not yet developed the mission will be dangerous, but it will be downright deadly if the sorcerer figures out who she is and decides she will follow in her mother’s footsteps.