author : Josiah Bancroft

To find her, Senlin must enter the Tower of Babel – a world of geniuses and tyrants, of menace and wonder, of unusual animals and mysterious machines. He must endure betrayal, assassination attempts and the long guns of a flying fortress. And if he hopes to ever sec his wife again, he will have to do more than just survive – this quiet man of letters must become a man of action.

Iz and Warren Wilby are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Hexologists never shy away from a challenging case,

Bet when they are approached by the royal secretary and told about a curious predicament involving the king, the Wilbies soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery that could very well see the nation turned on its head. Their effort to expose a royal secret buried under forty years of lies brings them nose to nose with a violent anti-royalist gang, avaricious ghouls and a bookish dragon who only occasionally eats people.

Armed with a love toughened by adversity and a stick of chalk that can conjure light from the darkness, Iz and Warren Wilby are ready for a case that will test every spell, skill and odd magical artefact in their considerable bag of tricks.