Stevermer, Caroline

Ten-year-old Frederick, who is surreptitiously watched over by a household elf, is plucked from a London orphanage to be a servant to a wealthy wizard, and eventually his uncanny abilities lead him to become the wizard's apprentice.

Again, we are in the same, magical Victorian-Edwardian Britain, and shows yet again that Stevermer is a worthy follower of Jane Austen for wit, of Dorothy Sayers for suspense and erudition.

A regal-looking stranger looks strangely like Good King Julian, who has been gone from Aravis for two hundred years, and the people of Aravis, including idealistic artist Hail Rosmer, wonder if the hopes they have always placed upon his return will come true.

Wyoming sharpshooter Samuel Lambert comes to England's Glasscastle University to assist with a top-secret project, unaware of the dangerous magic within the castle walls, and finds himself enchanted by the provost's sister.

Nearly twenty years after the holocaust called the Flash has destroyed modern civilization, Tomcat and a group of other orphans face danger as they steer an old steamboat over the toxic waters of the Mississippi River.

Ten-year-old Frederick, who is surreptitiously watched over by a household elf, is plucked from a London orphanage to be a servant to a wealthy wizard, and eventually his uncanny abilities lead him to become the wizard's apprentice.

Nearly twenty years after the holocaust called the Flash has destroyed modern civilization, Tomcat and a group of other orphans face danger as they steer an old steamboat over the toxic waters of the Mississippi River.