The year is 1850 and THE UK is flourishing, thanks to the Royal Society from the Esoteric Arts. The Industrial Revolution, powered by the Royal Society’s magic, is definitely changing the world and fortunes could be made by those with strong magical talent. Newly found out talented mages are bought from their families at a significant price, while weakened mages are purchased for any pittance.

Charlotte Gunn doesn’t trust the Royal Society and is hiding her magical talents to avoid being forcibly recruited about Brother’s Spoil: Industrial Magic Book 1 by them. However when her magic is mistaken as her brother’s and he is submit for compulsory screening, she has an awful choice to create; watch him be studied from their battling family for little compensation, or move off her talents as his personal to help make the magi pay out more for taking him.

When her father’s life is devote danger with a terrifying business collection agencies agency with an archive of individuals dying on their premises, Charlotte is forced to trick the most powerful people in the land to paying her family higher compensation in order to clear her father’s personal debt. But can she keep her own magical talents hidden and remain free of charge herself?

This is the audiobook version from the novella published by Tor.com.