About Magic

Almost fifteen year old Silent lives with her elderly aunt in an old row house in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood--but slips through a magical side door to commute to school in a parallel version of the city where everything seems a century out of date--and magic is practiced and studied routinely. At her school, the Girls' Academy of Latin and Alchemy or GALA, she is an advanced student of magic, but no one knows she's actually from our world. Until the CIA starts to take a suspicious interest in her aunt's side door...