The Midnight Queen

'Fresh and inventive . . . I can't wait to see what Sylvia Hunter does next' Marie Brennan, author of A Natural History of Dragons

Gray Marshall's Britain is a fragmented kingdom of many tongues, many gods and many magicks. But all that concerns Gray right now is returning as soon as possible to his studies and setting right the nightmare that has seen him disgraced and banished to his tutor's home – without a trace of his powers. That is when he meets the professor's daughter.

Although she has no talent of her own and has been forbidden by her father to pursue it, Sophie Callender longs for a magickal education. But she started a bookish rebellion in her father's library long ago and her meeting with Gray sets off a series of events that will lead them to uncover a conspiracy at the heart of the kingdom and into the legend of the Midnight Queen, who vanished without trace years before.