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Practical Magic is a tale of two sisters, Gillian and Sally Owens, brought up by their two elderly guardian aunts in a world of spells and exotica from which they eventually escape - one by running away, the other by marrying - but which never escapes from them. Many years go by before strange circumstances thrust them together again, and again they are in a world that blends the mundane and the mysterious, the familiar and the fantastic, the normal...

To London Society, they were a group of well-educated ladies who gather to discuss literature, exchange needlework techniques, and gossip about the bachelors of the ton. But, behind closed doors at the Lavender House, these ladies are so much more Ella St. James is worried about her friend who has been having clandestine meetings with a stranger. Then the woman turns up dead, and Ella is determined to discover the truth. But, Sir Thomas Drake seems...