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Arch Mage #5
False Earth: A YA Fantasy Adventure to the Demon Overlord's Planet
Trapped, hunted, and stripped of her magic. Can she save the universe from enslavement and her friends from certain death? Agnes is an escaped prisoner struggling to survive inside the castle of the Demon Overlord Sharir. As his soldiers close in, she relies on her cleverness, but without her magic or friends for support, her self-doubt and depression are raging. Meanwhile, Sharir has other plans for Agnes and the universe. He's been gathering a massive army of magical creatures in order to conquer all the Earths. And he has a bizarre laboratory where he's experimenting on creatures to make super demon soldiers using tainted magic. Agnes desperately needs to contact her friends before they attack and meet their certain death in Sharir's trap. Will she restore her magic, save her friends, and stop Sharir in time to save the universe? False Earth is Book Five and the finale in the thrilling The Arch Mage YA fantasy series that readers can't put down. If you like magical creatures, intrigue, exhilarating adventures, and journeys of epic proportions, you'll love Cami Murdock Jensen's enthralling story. Join Agnes on False Earth today to enjoy the intense conclusion to The Arch Mage series!
482 pages, Hardcover
Published December 17, 2022
About the author
Cami Murdock Jensen
6 books421 followersCami Murdock Jensen is the author of the Arch Mage Series, a complete five-book YA fantasy multiverse adventure. She writes about people the world has counted out — and what they discover they’re capable of when no one is watching.
The Arch Mage Series didn’t begin in a notebook. It began on walks.
When Cami’s daughter was diagnosed with POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) and chronic migraines, the illness brought deconditioning that made everything harder. To fight back, they started walking together — short distances at first, often painful, always difficult. To make it through, they talked. They invented a girl who understood what it felt like to live inside a body that didn’t cooperate: a protagonist who faced her challenges not after overcoming her illness, but while still carrying it, every single day.
Those conversations became the Arch Mage Series.
Agnes Cavanaugh is that girl. She is sixteen, a burn survivor from Massachusetts, chronically ill from neuropathy, and the only wizard on a planet that banned magic 5,000 years ago. Her power is unlike anything in the wizarding world’s history — and it is perfectly, stubbornly her own. In a multiverse full of deception, that makes her the most dangerous person in any room.
Alongside Agnes is Temnon Odonata — arch mage of First Earth, possessor of an extraordinary and rare gift, and the one person whose honesty might match her own. The road across five worlds is long. So is the slow burn.
Agnes’s neuropathy is never magically resolved. Her scars are never erased. She saves the multiverse anyway. That was always the point — and it came directly from watching a real girl find her strength one step at a time.
Cami grew up in Spanish Fork, Utah with two obsessions that seemed unrelated: science and storytelling. As a senior in high school she won the Sterling Scholar in science and cloned DNA at the state level. One year later she wrote and composed the score for her first children’s musical. She has spent her adult life teaching, directing, writing, and composing — and never stopped believing that the most powerful stories are the ones that make someone feel less alone.
She lives in Utah with six children and a husband who is a much better hero than any prince, and who also handles her marketing, which may be the most heroic thing of all.
The Arch Mage Series didn’t begin in a notebook. It began on walks.
When Cami’s daughter was diagnosed with POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) and chronic migraines, the illness brought deconditioning that made everything harder. To fight back, they started walking together — short distances at first, often painful, always difficult. To make it through, they talked. They invented a girl who understood what it felt like to live inside a body that didn’t cooperate: a protagonist who faced her challenges not after overcoming her illness, but while still carrying it, every single day.
Those conversations became the Arch Mage Series.
Agnes Cavanaugh is that girl. She is sixteen, a burn survivor from Massachusetts, chronically ill from neuropathy, and the only wizard on a planet that banned magic 5,000 years ago. Her power is unlike anything in the wizarding world’s history — and it is perfectly, stubbornly her own. In a multiverse full of deception, that makes her the most dangerous person in any room.
Alongside Agnes is Temnon Odonata — arch mage of First Earth, possessor of an extraordinary and rare gift, and the one person whose honesty might match her own. The road across five worlds is long. So is the slow burn.
Agnes’s neuropathy is never magically resolved. Her scars are never erased. She saves the multiverse anyway. That was always the point — and it came directly from watching a real girl find her strength one step at a time.
Cami grew up in Spanish Fork, Utah with two obsessions that seemed unrelated: science and storytelling. As a senior in high school she won the Sterling Scholar in science and cloned DNA at the state level. One year later she wrote and composed the score for her first children’s musical. She has spent her adult life teaching, directing, writing, and composing — and never stopped believing that the most powerful stories are the ones that make someone feel less alone.
She lives in Utah with six children and a husband who is a much better hero than any prince, and who also handles her marketing, which may be the most heroic thing of all.
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February 26, 2023
“But our master now has the truth magic. What is a human wizard capable of without her magic?”
It’s a valid question and one Agnes wages with herself as she fights to stay alive long enough to escape being trapped in the Demon Overlord Sharir’s fortress. However, Agnes has the scars of many battles before this one and no matter what she has never stopped fighting. Because she has touched the lives of countless individuals on many worlds and now each one of those individuals hang in the balance. Their future is about to be snuffed out or traded for an existence where they beg for death rather than claim what Sharir has in store for them.
And so, this is where it has brought Agnes. Every battle has led to this point in her journey, a final showdown against a supreme darkness. On the surface, she has no hope of winning. Her arsenal is gone, stripped by Sharir. Yet Agnes has always shown the magic doesn’t make her who she is. If anything, she makes the magic her own, a reflection of her incredibly beautiful spirit. When the stakes are the highest, Agnes shines fiercely. Her courage and determination are unmatched because she always sees the fight in the backdrop of those she cares for the most in her world, one of the many reasons we’ve grown to love her. As she faces the hardest battle of her life, she’ll give her all to hold back the terrible future she has seen in Sharir’s eyes.
So, “What is a human wizard capable of without her magic?”
More than anyone imagined possible, including the wizard. And so, hope remains.
It’s a valid question and one Agnes wages with herself as she fights to stay alive long enough to escape being trapped in the Demon Overlord Sharir’s fortress. However, Agnes has the scars of many battles before this one and no matter what she has never stopped fighting. Because she has touched the lives of countless individuals on many worlds and now each one of those individuals hang in the balance. Their future is about to be snuffed out or traded for an existence where they beg for death rather than claim what Sharir has in store for them.
And so, this is where it has brought Agnes. Every battle has led to this point in her journey, a final showdown against a supreme darkness. On the surface, she has no hope of winning. Her arsenal is gone, stripped by Sharir. Yet Agnes has always shown the magic doesn’t make her who she is. If anything, she makes the magic her own, a reflection of her incredibly beautiful spirit. When the stakes are the highest, Agnes shines fiercely. Her courage and determination are unmatched because she always sees the fight in the backdrop of those she cares for the most in her world, one of the many reasons we’ve grown to love her. As she faces the hardest battle of her life, she’ll give her all to hold back the terrible future she has seen in Sharir’s eyes.
So, “What is a human wizard capable of without her magic?”
More than anyone imagined possible, including the wizard. And so, hope remains.
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