Chosen

Alex Verus is a diviner, a mage who can see the probable futures ahead of him. That gift has pulled him out of plenty of trouble. Now he faces something it may not be able to fix.

In his youth Alex served a Dark mage as an apprentice, and the work he did under that master is something he is ashamed of. He has since built a better life. Then word spreads that the old master is coming back.

His past arrives first in the form of a young adept who wants only revenge. Alex has to look at what he did, and at whom it hurt.

He also has to decide what to tell the people around him. His friends, among them his apprentice Luna, are ready to take risks on his behalf. Alex fears how they will see him once they know his history, yet they cannot stand with him sensibly without knowing what kind of man he was.

Chosen is the fourth book in Benedict Jacka's Alex Verus series, an urban fantasy about the hidden mages of modern London. The question it turns on is whether Alex's friends will stay once they learn the truth.