Apprentice of the Current. Apprentice of the Current, #1

Alex Ellis is eighteen, practical, and certain magic belongs in books-until the night he pulls a drowning woman from a flooded creek. The woman is Darla, a real witch bound by an ancient life-debt. She offers him anything within her power. When Alex asks to learn magic, she tells him the truth: the current she commands answers only to women. If he wants the knowledge, he must become one. After a weekend of hard thought, Alex accepts and gives precise instructions for the body he wants.
Darla works the spell. Reality rewrites itself. Alex wakes as Maya Ellis. Her clothes have changed. Everyone who has ever known her now remembers a young woman who has always been Maya. Only she and Darla carry the earlier truth. What follows is Maya's first year as both apprentice and woman-learning Sight, Binding, and Channeling while navigating the bewildering realities of a new body, the comedy of firsts, the quiet thrill of being seen, and the growing awareness that other magical forces have noticed her transformation.
The current exacts its price. Rivals test her wards. And the identity she chose begins to feel less like a bargain and more like the life she was meant to claim. Apprentice of the Current is a contemporary fantasy of power, identity, and the irreversible cost of wanting something impossible.