The Magic Items Company

The Society of Magical Objects has four members who meet in the basement of a London bookshop to protect the world from the danger, and even destruction, that magic can cause if it gets out of control.

When Frank Simpson, the Society's longest-serving member, learns of a new magical artefact that has appeared in Hong Kong, he sends their newest recruit, Magda Sparks, to investigate. Upon arrival, however, Magda faces grave danger when she runs into a professional assassin who seems to know about the existence of magical objects – or at least the one stolen from him years ago. Magda flees from him with the help of another artefact that she has kept secret even from her fellow Society members.

Back in London, Magda discovers she is not the only one keeping secrets within the Society, and that the most dangerous secret of all concerns the very nature of their mission. The events that began in Hong Kong soon lead her to the Deep South of the United States, hot on the trail of the same assassin she faced before. At the same time, she begins to realise that others are hunting for magical objects too, and that her own family legacy is closely tied to keeping all these secrets under wraps.