A Marvellous Light

Robin Blyth expected a quiet civil-service post, not to inherit a job liaising with a secret society of British magicians due to a clerical error, and certainly not to be cursed within days by a man whose face is made of fog. To survive, he has to rely on Edwin Courcey, the reserved, book-loving magician assigned to work beside him, a man who has spent his life feeling like the weakest talent in every room. As the curse spreads and Robin's predecessor turns up missing, the two uncover a conspiracy that threatens every magician in the British Isles. Their reluctant partnership warms into something neither expected, set against Edwardian estates, hidden libraries, and a gentle magic system worked with knotted string.