The Midnight Queen (Midnight Queen Trilogy)

In the hallowed halls of Oxford's Merlin College, the most talented -- and highest born -- sons of the Kingdom of Britain are taught the intricacies of magickal theory. But what dazzles can also destroy, as Gray Marshall is about to discover....Gray's Britain is a fragmented kingdom of many tongues, many gods and many magicks. But all that concerns  Gray right now is returning as soon as possible to his studies and setting right the nightmare that has seen him disgraced and banished to his tutor's country home -- without a trace of his powers. And it is there, toiling away on a summer afternoon, that he meets his tutor's daughter.Although she has no talent of her own and has been forbidden by her father to pursue it, Sophie Callender longs for a magickal education. She started a bookish rebellion in her father's library long ago, and her sheltered upbringing conceals a mysterious past and what may prove a catastrophic future.Sophie's meeting with Gray sets off a series of events that will lead them to uncover a conspiracy at the heart of the kingdom and into the legend of the Midnight Queen, who vanished without a trace years before.