Luanne G. Smith

Luanne G. Smith writes fantasy novels that combine historical settings, practical magic, and women navigating hidden communities. She lives in Colorado and has written the Vine Witch trilogy, the Conspiracy of Magic novels, and the Order of the Seven Stars series. The Raven Spell opens A Conspiracy of Magic in Victorian London, where sisters Edwina and Mary Blackwood work as witches while trying to survive suspicion surrounding their mother's disappearance. When detective Ian Cameron wakes near a body with gaps in his memory, Edwina risks an enchantment that may restore what he has lost. Their investigation links his missing recollections to a wider pattern of vanished women and buried family knowledge. Smith gives the mystery a distinctly Gothic atmosphere, but its momentum comes from Edwina's uneasy partnership with Ian and her determination to protect Mary. The Raven Spell also broadens Smith's recurring interest in the costs of magical craft, placing spells, memory, and sisterhood within a detective story, not a conventional quest.