Pax Azteca

by Randal Doering

One day Dennis Machefski finds a book of magic at the flea market, and his career as a sorcerer is born. Over the next year he practices magic and grows increasingly more powerful, but then a magical accident nearly kills him. He is nursed back to health by an American Indian shaman named Nine Winds, who is nearly 1400 years old. But the price of her aid is to assist her against the Aztecs, who have resurrected their most powerful magical artifact, the smoking mirror, and plan to use it to conquer the United States. The Aztecs want a short, ugly war and complete victory, and it is only Dennis, Nine Winds and a modest assembly of American Indian shamans and sorcerers who dare to oppose them…

262 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 23, 2014

About the author

Randal Doering has a BA in creative writing and an MA in anthropology. He has worked as an orthotics craftsman, a desktop publisher, and a web developer. Randal is an avid reader who favors fantasy, science fiction, horror and literary works.