Putney, Mary Jo

Simon Malmain, chief enforcer of the Guardian Council, which oversees the use of magic in eighteenth-century Britain, is turned into a unicorn after a run-in with Lord Drayton, but he is luckily freed by Meg, a servant in Drayton's household, who then unites with Malmain in an attempt to keep the rogue mage from enacting a plan to keep the Industrial Age from happening.

One of the Duke of Wellington's most respected officers, Jack Langdon, Lord Frayne, take's his family's honor very seriously. He also hides a shameful secret--a talent for sorcery he has been raised to suppress and openly reject. But after an injury lands Jack at death's door, his only chance at survival lies with Abigail Barton, a peer's daughter--and a skilled wizard. Her price: Jack's hand in marriage. It isn't long before Jack feels an irresistible attraction to his forthright new wife, whose allure is as intense as the reawakening magical abilities he can no longer deny. Abby knows all too well her husband's distaste for magic. Once she has Jack's name and the child she has always longed for, she is determined to live apart from him so he can preserve his reputation--and she can stay true to her own gifts. But neither Abby nor Jack reckons on the deep passion her spell ignites.

Tory and her friends receive an urgent summons, leading the young mages known as Merlin's Irregulars to ask Rebecca Weiss, an untrained telepath from 1940, to join them in 1804 and stop Napoleon from invading England.

Safely back in 1803 England, Merlin's Irregulars are more confident, proud, and powerful, but class distinctions complicate their relationships until the mages are called upon to rescue a vitally important French scientist and his family from Nazi-occupied France.

When sixteen-year-old Lady Victoria is discovered to have magic powers, she is banished to a reform school where she falls in with rebellious students who have pledged to protect England from conquest. Using her full powers, Victoria and the others are led into a dangerous and challenging world.