The Huna Warrior: The Magic Begins features Kat Romero, a newly appointed vice-principal of Susan B. Anthony High School in Folsom, California. Through her eyes we glimpse the everyday problems inherent in every American public high school: student clashes, collegial complaints and the inside politics of the school district. As Kat meets all of these challenges head-on, she finds herself in danger from enigmatic forces—forces slowly revealed to her through a Hawaiian student she befriends.

When the story begins, it is the first day of school, and Kat clashes with the new principal, Gabe Minelli, over the number of suspension days given to two students involved in a fight during lunch. While Kat feels compelled to object to Gabe’s reduction of the three-day suspension, she knows that treading on his toes could result in her demotion back to the classroom. Now a first-time home owner and still paying off student loans from graduate school, Kat has to find a balance between listening to her intuition, speaking her mind, and smoothing Gabe’s ruffled feathers.

With a history of taking troubled boys under his wing, Gabe has singled out Rudy Baker, one of the boys involved in the fight, to lavish attention upon. Kat senses that Rudy’s deviant nature will come back to haunt Gabe. She tries to warn him that Rudy may put him and the students in danger, but Gabe’s need to save at-risk students overrides his common sense.

Meanwhile, Kalani Kingston, a freshman and former student in Kat’s class at the middle school, asks Kat to help her with a writing assignment. Kat takes Kalani home and is introduced to her grandmother, Liana Manuiki, who, seeing Kat’s flagging energy, gives her a Lomi Lomi message and invites her to dinner the following weekend. During dinner, Kat learns that Liana comes from a long line of kahuna, Hawaiian priests trained in the ancient lore called Huna. The ancient kahuna could perform incredible feats like walking on hot lava, healing broken bones, and even praying an enemy to death. Liana recognizes Kat as the chosen one whom she must train to protect the legacy of the ancient magic as well as stop the mysterious deaths of Hawaii’s surviving kahuna. Kat is the Huna Warrior.

As the school year progresses, Kat’s initial impressions about Rudy are right on the mark. He assaults another student, gets expelled, and totals Gabe’s car in a joyriding spree which injures several other students. Forced to give up plans to adopt Rudy in order to avoid liability for the accident, Gabe turns the boy over to the county. Rudy is sentenced to Boys Ranch, a detention facility for juvenile delinquents, but escapes and returns to Anthony High to get a gun he’s hidden there. Kat relies on the Huna magic she’s learned from Liana and Kalani to survive Rudy’s attempt to kill her—all the while fending off the evil forces sent by Hukui, a renegade kahuna in Maui who, by killing off the surviving Hawaiian kahunas, is determined to become the most powerful kahuna in the world and has targeted her as his foremost enemy.

The Huna Warrior: The Magic Begins incorporates the true ancient Hawaiian wisdom known as Huna, a once secret system which was first revealed by Max Freedom Long in the 1930’s. Kat’s unique application of these time-tested principles offers hope and enlightenment to anyone in need of inspiration and personal empowerment. As the Huna Warrior, Kat Romero spearheads the next popular phenomenon sure to enchant readers everywhere and capture the imagination of the world. The Huna Warrior has arrived.

This blockbuster novel, 438 pages in length, is published by Prairie Angel Press, 5098 Foothills Blvd., #3-324, Roseville, CA 95747. An autographed copy may be purchased by sending a check or money order for $20.16 (which includes the price of the book,tax and shipping) to this address or by following the order form directions on this website. Please let the author know specific names for the autographed book. Better yet--order the book by phone at 1-800-695-0142.

The Huna Warrior: The Magic Begins has earned a Bronze medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the category of Visionary Fiction, 2007. Prairie Angel Press has won Best Media Package for The Huna Warrior at the Northern California Publishers Association Awards ceremony held in April, 2007.