Celia Lake

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2018
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Mysterious Charm

0.5 - Ancient Trust (Sep-2022)
1 - Outcrossing (Dec-2018)
2 - Goblin Fruit (Feb-2019)
3 - Magician's Hoard (Apr-2019)
4 - Wards of the Roses (Aug-2019)
5 - In The Cards (Nov-2019)
6 - On The Bias (Mar-2020)
6.5 - Unexplored Territory (Apr-2022)
7 - Seven Sisters (Jun-2020)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • Outcrossing

    Mysterious Charm - 1

    Enjoy this kind and gentle 1920s historical fantasy romance series set in the magical community of Great Britain. Ferry found freedom as a governess. Born and raised to be an obedient daughter of the upper class, Ferry refused to marry the awfu...

  • Goblin Fruit

    Mysterious Charm - 2

    Enjoy this kind and gentle 1920s historical fantasy romance series set in the magical community of Great Britain. Lizzie loves her sister. After their father and uncle were lost in a diastrous expedition, Lizzie has done her best to keep everyt...

  • Magician's Hoard

    Mysterious Charm - 3

    Enjoy this kind and gentle 1920s historical fantasy romance series set in the magical community of Great Britain. Pross has a simple research question. A widow raising her daughter on her own, Pross has begun taking on research projects as well...

  • Wards of the Roses

    Mysterious Charm - 4

    Collaboration and curiosity can get through the thickest thorns. Giles Lefton has an excellent life. He enjoys his mathematics, his teaching at the University, and his cryptography assignments. When a manor missing for centuries suddenly reappears...

  • In The Cards

    Mysterious Charm - 5

    Enjoy this kind and gentle 1920s historical fantasy romance series set in the magical community of Great Britain. Laura wants to live her life. Laura hasn't had an easy time since she was fifteen. Illness, recovery, and then a rough few yea...

  • On The Bias

    Mysterious Charm - 6

    Mistress Castalia Jones has built up her dressmaking business stitch by stitch. Comfortably middle-aged, she has apprentices to train, interesting clothing to design, and the freedom to make her own choices. When she overhears uncomfortable gossip ab...

  • Seven Sisters

    Mysterious Charm - 7

    What if you had ancient magic on your side? Vivian has become a trifle bored with the routine of her inquiry agency and her commitments to the fae-blooded community. When a young man asks for help stopping mysterious events at a boarding house his...

  • Pastiche

    Can a chivalrous lord and his clear-sighted wife find love together?As a child, Richard dreamed of knighthood and gallant deeds. As a grown man, he is committed to doing his best as an officer of the Guard, as a Lord of the land, and as a father. Liv...

  • Carry On

    Enjoy this kind and gentle historical fantasy romance set in the magical community of Great Britain during the Great War.Elen has a nurse's hands.Sent home from the Front after a injury leaves her with ongoing headaches, Elen is desperate to do her p...



  • The Fossil Door

    He wants to know why. She wants to belong.Gabe was born into privilege - money, a loving family, and encouragement to follow wherever his curiosity leads. Assigned to help investigate a failed magical portal in the Scottish Highlands in 1922, he's mo...

  • Eclipse

    Enjoy this kind and clever historical fantasy romance set in the magical community of Great Britain after the Great War.Thesan loves the stars.As the Astronomy professor at Schola, Albion's leading magical school, she's made a life full of teaching, ...

  • Sailor's Jewel

    Enjoy this kind and creative 1901 historical fantasy romance set in the magical community of Great Britain.Rhoe agreed to this trip for her own reasons.About to take up a new and challenging position as a healer, Rhoe agreed to a trip with her brothe...

  • Complementary

    Undercover in the nonmagical world... with a cosy cottage with only one bed. As an artist and a magical investigator, Elizabeth is the perfect choice when midwife Rosemary comes to her for help investigating something strange at an artist’s colo...

  • Fool's Gold

    Enjoy this gentle and kind historical fantasy romance set in the magical community of Great Britain after the Great War.Robin needs colour and freedom.After a series of awful decisions, Robin has spent the past two and a half years under the close su...

  • Winter's Charms: An Anthology of Albion

    Celebrate the winter with three novellas about love, family, and what it means to be home after the Great War. Casting Nasturtiums brings a family together. Seth has no idea what's happened to Golshan since that awful day in the trenches in...

  • The Hare And The Oak

    Enjoy this kind and gentle 1920s historical fantasy romance series set in the magical community of Great Britain.Mabyn keeps her commitments.   The land magic in Suffolk has been failing for years. When the current Lord asks the Council...

  • Unexplored Territory

    Mysterious Charm - 6.5

    "Unexplored Territory" is a novelette of around 11,000 words. It takes place during the events of On the Bias and explores what Lizzie and Carillon were up to at the time. (They are the featured characters in Goblin Fruit and secondar...

  • Point By Point

    Enjoy this gentle and kind historical fantasy romance set in the magical community of Great Britain after the Great War.Lydia yearns to make her name as a journalistMore to the point, Lydia can't keep going as she has.  There's never enough mo...

  • Mistress of Birds

    Enjoy this gentle and kind historical fantasy romance set in the magical community of Great Britain after the Great War.Thalia wants to make an impact.Thalia's life is full of artists, authors, and other creative minds, but she's barely keeping herse...



  • Ancient Trust

    Mysterious Charm - 0.5

    A prequel novella in which Geoffrey Carillon inherits the land obligations, and with Thomas Benton (his valet) must figure out what his life is doing now. It alternates between Carillon's point of view and Benton's, and takes place in the...

  • Best Foot Forward

    The enemy of my enemy is not my friend.Lord Geoffrey Carillon wants to do the impossible.He needs to get an imprisoned alchemist doing key research out of Germany before the world gets even worse. Carillon's cover as a slightly daffy aristocrat will ...

  • Forged in Combat

    What does it mean to claim your place? Arthur was born to service and war. Arthur has the trajectory of his life mapped out for him. He'll work his way up through a series of Army postings, keeping up the honour and military traditions of his family....

  • Bound For Perdition

    New magic brings new challenges.Charged with creating a magical journal that would allow rapid communication during the Great War, Lynet has worked with a papermaker to overcome the technical challenges.But brilliant magical innovation isn't enough. ...

  • Nocturnal Quarry

    The world keeps changing. Alexander's world was upended three years ago when a spot of espionage had ripple effects that transformed every part of his life, even his relationship with his own magic. Now, he's compelled by politics to spend the summer...

  • Old As The Hills

    What would you risk so others could live?It is the early months of WWII and Rathna already has an idea of how bad it might get. If she can make the final connections she needs to create a new portal in a matter of weeks rather than years, she might j...

  • Upon A Summer's Day

    On the Summer Solstice of 1940, Gabe made a solemn oath. Two parts of it were easy enough, he was already doing them. The third part has haunted his every choice since. When he is asked a question that August, Gabe knows he must answer yes. His answe...

  • Shoemaker's Wife

    1920 should have been a wonderful summer. The Great War is over, and Clara's husband Owen has finally come home. All he wants is to set up as a shoemaker and enjoy a peaceful marriage. Nothing about Owen's return is easy. There's not enough money for...

  • Four Walls and a Heart

  • Illusion of a Boar

    In March of 1944, four magical specialists are brought together at a secret camp for an even more mysterious mission. Hypatia and Cammie adopted each other as sisters twenty years ago, during their school years, after Cammie's mother married Hypatia'...



  • Three Graces

    In May of 1945, as the war in Europe is coming to an end, three women can turn their attention to an old and lingering problem. Lizzie never met her brother-in-law, Temple. He died in 1922, in what she and her husband now know was a desperate attempt...

  • Perfect Accord

    Nothing too horrible can happen in a fortnight. Charlotte is worried. Her friend Victor - the man everyone expects she'll marry - has fallen in with a new circle. Growing up in the family she has, Charlotte knows there's something odd going on. The n...

  • The Magic of Four

    In 1946, four second year students at Schola have challenges to face. Leo, Ros, Avigail, and Jasper need to make some key decisions about their lives. Being at the most elite of the schools of magic in Great Britain has advantages, but that doesn't m...

  • Facets of the Bench

    The War changed everything. Annice grew up wanting to carve jet. Born and raised in Whitby, on the Yorkshire coast, she learned from her father and grandfather, drawing beauty out of ancient stones. But now she's on her own, there are customs against...

  • Enchanted Net

    Thessaly's life is laid out before her, a sparkling path toward the goals any young woman of Albion should aspire to. Her own magic is strong, she's a gifted duellist mastering the enchantments of illusion work. Now she's betrothed to the shining so...

  • Silent Circuit

    On the summer solstice, Thessaly's world was changed forever, with an unexpected death. Now, she's frantically trying to figure out what's going on and what happened. The Fortiers - the family she will be marrying into - won't tell her anything. Her ...

  • Elemental Truth

    Six months ago, Thessaly thought she knew what her life would hold. Now, two deaths have changed that. She has a freedom she never thought she'd have, but that doesn't mean that society's pressures have gone away. Still pressured to marry well, Thess...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Celia Lake has published 36 books.

The next book by Celia Lake, Elemental Truth, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by Celia Lake, Outcrossing, was published in December 2018.

Yes. Celia Lake has 1 series.
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