Dearest Kate, It is dreadfully flat here since you have been gone, and it only makes it worse to imagine all the things I shall be missing… Indeed, there’s a great deal happening in London. First, there was the matter of the witch trying to poison Kate at Sir Hilary’s induction into the Royal College of Wizards. And why did she think that Kate was the roguish Marquis of Schofield, in clever disguise? What spell did the beautiful Dorothea cast to make her the toast of the town? And how to tell Aunt Charlotte that Oliver has been turned into a tree…