The Gatekeeper's Staff: An Old Gods Story: 1 (Tj Young & the Orishas)

TJ Young has been surrounded by magic his entire life yet he has never tapped into it... until now.Fourteen-year-old TJ grew up normal in a secret community of gifted diviners in the heart of modern-day Los Angeles. His powerful sister was ordained to lead his people into a new age of prosperity but her mysterious death in Nigeria threatens to destroy the very foundations of TJs world.Desperate to pick up where his sister left off and uncover the secrets behind her questionable death TJ commits himself to unlocking the magical heritage that has always eluded him. So he enrolls in Camp Olosa-a remedial magic school for the divinely less-than-gifted in the humid swamps of New Orleans.But little does he know TJ is destined to cross paths with powerful spirits of old thought lost to time: the orishas.Delve into this young adult fantasy based on the mythology of the West African Orishas where TJ will encounter unlikely allies tough-as-gatorhide instructors and the ancient secrets of the orishas.