The Lindsey Barron Series is the US answer to Harry Potter. A hundred years ago, wizards and witches finally came out, openly working their spells, accepted by those who have no such skills. Around the country, magic schools were established, where the students go to learn both their traditional subjects and also magic. When they graduate, they have a high school diploma as well as mastery of much magic. Set in our future, now twelve years old, Lindsey discovers that she has been given a full scholarship to Bradbury's School of Magic, somewhere near Telluride, Colorado. Her father, though she did not know it, was a famous wizard, primarily responsible for capturing the incredibly evil wizard known as Dominus Malefic, some fifteen years ago. Now Dominus has escaped and the action begins! Now that Dominus has gotten the President under his control, he sets off on gaining control of the country, via the National Health Care Program of the President. Who could be against the idea of such a program? Under the program, pills are dispensed which does indeed create totally healthy individuals with no criminal tendencies. Others call these people automatons or zombies. Lindsey and friends help spoil the murdering of the wife of Dominus and begin to find out the secrets behind these pills and the program. As they get too close to Dominus, he then kidnaps Lindsey and Ashley, fixing up a diabolical torture that he calculates will keep them out of his affairs.