Sorcerer to the Crown (First edition.)

In this sparkling debut, magic and mayhem clash with the British elite...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 Majestys lands.

But lately, the once proper institute has fallen into disgrace, naming an altogether unsuitable gentlemana freed slave who doesnt even have a familiaras their Sorcerer Royal, and allowing Englands once profuse stores of magic to slowly bleed dry.

At least they havent stooped so low as to allow women to practice what is obviously a mans professionAt his wits end, Zacharias Wythe, Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers and eminently proficient magician, ventures to the border of Fairyland to discover why Englands 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, he sets on a path which will alter the nature of sorcery in all of Britainand the world at large