Total Eclipse

What Has Come BeforeMy name is Joanne Baldwin, and I used to control the weather as a Weather Warden. These days, I can also control the forces of the earth, such as volcanoes and earthquakes, and the forces of fire. Don't ask it's a long story. Just go with it, okay?Controlling all those awesome forces sounds like fun, eh? No. Not when it makes you a target for every psycho world-killing danger that comes along.Good thing I've got my friends at my back Lewis Orwell, the most powerful Warden on the planet; Cherise, my best (and not supernatural) friend; a wide cast of sometimes dangerous allies who've got their own missions and agendas that don't always match up with mine.And I've got David, my true love. He's also a supernatural Djinn, the fairy-tale-three-wishes kind, and he's now coruler of the Djinn on Earth.But not even the most powerful friends in the world can help when real devastation hits. And it hit me and David, dead center, in our final battle with my old mentor and enemy and it took our power away.For me, that's an inconvenience.For David, it's fatal.I have to find a way to fix this before it's too late to save my beloved and maybe even humanity, because Mother Nature is waking up and she's pissed.
Chapter OneBlack corner.It was the name Wardens and Djinn gave to a section of the world that had been scorched by something unnatural; a place where the basic energy that coursed through the world, the pulsebeat of the Earth, no longer existed.A black corner looked fine, but to anyone with sensitivity to power, it was desolate and sterile. Wardens those who controlled the basic powers of nature suffered when they were trapped inside one of these dead zones. Still, we got off better than the Djinn.Djinn died.We'd been trapped in the massive black corner, sailing hard for the horizon, for days, and it was taking its toll at an increasingly horrible rate.It was so hard, watching them suffer. It was slow, and painful, and terrifying to watch, and as our cruise