Blood Magic: This was apparently quite common in pre-Roman times, allowing barbarian sorcerers to level mountains and reroute rivers even with their comparatively crude spellcraft.Beware the Nice Ones: Do not mess with Kate's loved ones.Beta Couple: She may have her name in the title and shoulder half the plot, but otherwise Cecelia and her love interest tick a lot of the boxes.This actually comes quite in handy in The Mislaid Magician. Badass Normal: James, former aide de camp to Wellington, and who constantly gets mixed up in magical mayhem despite having zero ability for it.Sorcery and Cecelia and its sequels provide examples of: Stevermer has also written a solo children's novel in the same setting, Magic Below Stairs, set in the Marquis of Schofield's servants' quarters. It was brought back into print in 2003, followed by two newly written sequels, known in the short form as The Grand Tour and The Mislaid Magician. Sorcery and Cecelia was originally published in 1988. The first draft of the novel was written as a game between the two authors: Stevermer wrote Kate's letters and sent them to Wrede, and Wrede wrote Cecelia's letters and sent them to Stevermer. Cecelia is initially chagrined to be stuck at home in Essex, but soon finds plenty to occupy herself, some of which turns out to have a bearing on Kate's problems in London. Kate is in London being overshadowed by her socially adept and flighty younger sister, and becomes entangled in a feud between the mysterious Marquis of Schofield and the even more mysterious Miranda, who is probably a sorceress.

It is an Epistolary Novel, consisting of the letters written by Cecelia to her cousin Kate and Kate's letters to Cecelia. Wrede, set in an Alternate History version of Regency England with wizards. Sorcery & Cecelia (or, to give it its full title, Sorcery & Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country) is a Historical Fantasy novel by Caroline Stevermer and Patricia C. Magical intrigue, murderous plots, and matching gloves.

Sorcery & Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede