If This Be Magic & the Traitor and the Spy

If This Be Magic: As if being the worst student at Miss Cranston's Select Seminary for the Study of Sorcery weren't bad enough, now sixteen-year-old Sophie Abbott suspects her uncle, the most respected magician in Boston, of secretly working for the Kaiser. The year is 1915, and though America isn't in the war yet, Sophie can't sit by and do nothing. Before long, she and Uncle Edward's apprentice Owen are deep in danger and treachery, and Sophie's unique ability to see magic as a spiderweb of spells might be the only thing that can save them. Time is running short and Owen's life is in her hands. Every spell she has ever attempted has failed spectacularly - can Sophie trust her magic now? The Traitor and the Spy: Philomena Stirling-Vane is fourteen years old in Victorian England, and in the unhappy position of having accidentally inherited the family magic. Her father is outraged, and her mother nearly prostrate with grief over the unhappy prospect of a lady magician in the family. When Jonathan Kempson, Mr Stirling-Vane's former apprentice, requires another magician's assistance to track down a traitor to the Council of Magicians, Phil sees her chance. Disguised as her brother, she accompanies Mr Kempson to London, where they must overcome their mutual dislike and learn to work together to unweave the tapestry of deception laid around them.