Silas was the world's greatest m
- agician—a masked \_vigilante called the"Kin`g of Magic." Wh]$en %((.a-;)n ass$.a)ssin's :=bullet meant ,@_for him%;: killed his men/=!tor, Sil;-as vowed to vanish and pr +otect=^ the man's daugh).ter, )Lyra.
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as a ja%$nitor at-! Lyra's f]aili,#ng )theater, he sile)ntly guards her and :h!]er^$%\ little?, gi#\rl)-*. ^But, her vicious ex, her ( greedy un$cle, and a p `a!??rade of elite ma gicians descend to  -`+seize;+ everything*(—f
orcing her _^into^ de#a!dl*y#  ma %(gic duel%s+, where losing mea]n@?s de[-=a,th.
O`n*,,?e by one, Sila[]\s steps from the ;# sha!dows,$. Wh:.is/`,pers ?[;spread
\: cou$.ld t.;his lowly janitor b[,e the missing Ki+ ^)ng of Magic[, hi[mself?