Music and Misadventure

"Fun" for all the family...I haven't heard from my mother in six years - which is why I was surprised to receive a summons from her. The peremptory kind.With nothing but a set of map co-ordinates to guide me, what exactly was I to expect?The short answer? Trouble, for Mother Dearest is in rather a lot of it. And like daughter, like mother, for there's a shiny artefact in the offing, and only a few gigantic lindworms in the way. Who isn't up for a minor little challenge like that?It's off to Faerie with us, for the artefact in question was once the property of the legendary King Evelaern; and who doesn't love a nice bit of ancient royal treasure?Only as it turns out, the declining kingdom of the Yllanfalen may hold some unexpected truths about my past... English both by name and nationality, Charlotte hasn't permitted emigration to the Netherlands to change her essential Britishness (much). She writes colourful fantasy novels over copious quantities of tea, and rarely misses an opportunity to apologise for something. Spanning the spectrum from light to dark, her works include the Draykon Series, Modern Magick, The Malykant Mysteries and the Tales of Aylfenhame. As agents of the Society for Magickal Heritage, Cordelia "Ves" Vesper and Jay Patel have an important job: to track down and rescue endangered magickal creatures, artefacts, books and spells wherever they are to be found. It's a duty that takes them the length and breadth of Britain, and frequently gets them into trouble...