The year is 1941 and both sides in the magical conflict are licking their wounds. The Phoenix is exiled from London to seek a new life in the countryside. Meanwhile, back in the capital, a new menace stalks the streets. It feeds on the life-force of both wizards and normals; but wizards are much tastier.
The Blank Magic books are set in an alternate reality where magic works.The Nazi high command has set up a division of the SS to wage clandestine magical warfare against the allies. Britain is forced to respond with its own magical forces; helped along by a small cast of characters who populate the fringes where the normal and magical worlds meet.