Moherron is the middle child of three in a loving, sharecropper family. When drought plagues his family farm and illness strikes his eldest brother, Moherron desperately prays for rain to end his family's suffering. Through his pleas, he makes a disastrous discovery.As he ages, he can never shake the idea that what had occurred was magical in nature and that he had caused it. While adjusting to a new life as best he can, the love of a foster father and brother are not enough to remove the uncertainty that plagues him. Haunted by years of guilt, he decides to leave everyone behind and venture through the perils of wild forest and mountains to see if magic really exists. In his journey he makes discoveries that show magic is more real than he had ever imagined.The Days of Magic explores the world of fantasy in a way that shows how the unlikeliest of people can change the world remarkably. The journey of a young boy carries the reader through gripping adventures that will ignite imagination and instigate questions about how close our own world can be to that of myth and legend.