Angel Mage is set in the seventeenth century in an alternative world where angels with varying powers can be summoned as required by those with the power to do so. It is into this world that Liliath, who 'died' more than a century earlier when the kingdom of Ystara was destroyed, returns to complete a quest. However assistance is required for this task as she may need to use the powers held unknowingly by others.
In the kingdom of Surance, four young people - Agnez, a musketeer; Simeon, a doctor; Dorotea, a mage and icon maker; and Henri, a clerk - travel to Lutace where they meet and gradually discover the common power that binds them. Lutace is a centre of magic struggling to survive from a growing outside threat emanating from some of former citizens of Ystara - the Reclusers. There is also a struggle for power among the branches of the defence forces defending the Queen and the kingdom. It soon becomes obvious that a new force has arisen releasing the beastlings and causing a threat to the citizens of Surance.
When the Queen orders an expedition into Ystara to be undertaken to locate lost treasure, the full powers of evil threatening the power of the mages in Surance is revealed. Another great book from Garth Nix.
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