What if magic came back into our world...

J.M. Valden lives in Maine, where long winters, dark forests, and an abundance of places with questionable cell service provide plenty of time to wonder about the end of the world. Valden has always been fascinated by one question: What would actually happen if magic came back?

The Null Contingency is the beginning of that thought experiment—and the first story in the larger Paradigm Shift Chronicles.