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The hexologists / Josiah Bancroft.

by Bancroft, Josiah.

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Magic -- Fiction.

Charms -- Fiction.

Secrecy -- Fiction.

Kings and rulers -- Fiction.

Bancroft, Josiah. Hexologists novels ; 1.

9780316443302 (trade pbk.)

xiii, 316 p. : maps ; 21 cm.

"The Hexologists, 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 Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled ghost. Well-acquainted with the weird, they never shy away from a challenging case. But when they are approached by the royal secretary and told the king pleads to be baked into a cake -- going so far as to wedge himself inside a lit oven -- 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 antiroyalist gang, avaricious ghouls, alchemists who draw their power from a hell-like dimension, 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, hope from the hopeless, Iz and Warren Wilby are ready for whatever springs from the alleys, graves, and shadows next"--Provided by publisher.

Fantasy fiction.

Historical fiction.

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