Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Summary
The Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, one of the
most respected organizations throughout all of England, has
long been tasked with maintaining magic within His Majesty's
lands. But lately, the once proper institute has fallen into
disgrace, naming an altogether unsuitable gentleman—a
freed slave who doesn't even have a familiar—as their
Sorcerer Royal, and allowing England's once profuse stores of
magic to slowly bleed dry. At least they haven't stooped so
low as to allow women to practice what is obviously a man's
profession... At his wit's end, Zacharias Wythe, Sorcerer Royal of the
Unnatural Philosophers and eminently proficient magician,
ventures to the border of Fairyland to discover why England's
magical stocks are drying up. But when his adventure brings
him in contact with a most unusual comrade, a woman with
immense power and an unfathomable gift,...