The Lakeside Kids and the Covert Conspiracy: Book Four of the Lakeside Adventures

In the thrilling conclusion to the Lakeside Adventures, James and his friends spend the summer after saving the world traveling and meeting up with each other. With adventures ranging from Paris and Venice and Prague to New Orleans and Chicago and New York, the friends are inundated with the ferocity of the animosity mundanes have for wizards around the world.

When they reconvene on campus at the Lakeside Academy of Magic and Advanced Technology for their senior year, Ferni is the only one alarmed by news of potentially dire import, and the rest of them soon fall into the familiar pattern of classes and card games and fine dining. While learning interesting magics that intertwine with technology in paradigm shifting ways and being faced with innovative challenges in Battle Magic, Marissa and Bailee have to juggle a salacious sally of slander.

Then the world is shaken when a secret organization of wizards announce they are taking the entire world hostage.

The threat of wizard violence spurs the mundanes to yet further hostility, and students are given the strict admonition not to leave campus. While the world is spinning into chaos around them, their interpersonal relationships are deepening and facing new tests. As they are drawn into the conflict directly, the friends must decide whom they can trust before everyone is engulfed in the rising tensions that threaten to tear asunder the very fabric of society itself.