The Purple Gentleman — Goldeen Ogawa

Corianne Birch is a young woman, newly orphaned, in a strange city. Fortunately, she has a godfather who has agreed to take custody of her. Perhaps unfortunately, he is the flamboyant, inscrutable, sometimes-maddening magician Bouragner Felpz. Set in a time and place not far from late Victorian England -- but in a world where magic is very, very real -- "The Purple Gentleman" is the first in a series of short stories about the masterful magician, Bouragner Felpz, and his adventures in the tricksy, turning backwaters of the magical world.