The Midnight Queen

In a nineteenth-century Britain where magecraft has directed the course of history, a ruthless conspiracy plots intrigue, treason, and murder. Only a pair of brilliant misfits suspect anything is wrong. And to avert disaster, they'll have to solve a royal mystery more than a decade cold.

As the term at Oxford's Merlin College ends, shy, bookish Gray Marshall accompanies his tutor to the country with nowhere else to go. A misadventure has left him in disgrace with his friends and, temporarily?, without magick. He overheard what sounded like a plan to murder the Master of Merlin. But he has no way to investigate his suspicions, and no one to trust. Until his professor's odd, neglected middle daughter, Sophie, befriends him, and he realizes there is far more to her than meets the eye.

According to her father, Sophie's dreams of education are unsuitable to a woman. So, her midnight library excursions to learn despite him have left her with subtle skills in gathering information, plenty of daring, and even more frustration. As Sophie and Gray begin to guess the aims of the conspirators, they know they must act. But for any chance at justice, they must risk all they have, and change who they are to each other forever...