Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer

Kate and Cecy and their new husbands, Thomas and James, are off on a Grand Tour. Their plans? To leisurely travel about the Continent, take in a few antiquities, and--of course--purchase fabulous Parisian wardrobes. But once they arrive in France, mysterious things start to happen. Cecy receives a package containing a lost coronation treasure, Thomas's valet is assaulted, and Kate loses a glove...

Ten years have passed since Kate and Cecy married Thomas and James, and England is now being transformed by the first railways. When the Duke of Wellington asks James to look into the sudden disappearance of a German railway engineer, James and Cecy's search reveals a shocking truth ... The railway lines are wreaking havoc with ancient underground magical ley lines, which could endanger th...

Dearest Kate, It is dreadfully flat here since you have been gone, and it only makes it worse to imagine all the things I shall be missing? Indeed, there?s a great deal happening in London. First, there was the matter of the witch trying to poison Kate at Sir Hilary?s induction into the Royal College of Wizards. And why did she think that Kate was the roguish Marquis of Schofield, in clever ...