Marvellous Light

Red, White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in debut author Freya Marske`s A Marvellous Light, featuring an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies. Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He`s struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents` excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what`s been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he`s always known. Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating deadly curse, and the alarming visions of the future that come with it--not to mention Edwin Courcey, his cold and prickly counterpart in the magical bureaucracy, who clearly wishes Robin were anyone and anywhere else. Robin`s predecessor has disappeared, and the mystery of what happened to him reveals unsettling truths about the very oldest stories they`ve been told about the land they live on and what binds it. Thrown together and facing unexpected dangers, Robin and Edwin discover a plot that threatens every magician in the British Isles--and a secret that more than one person has already died to keep.