Veronica arrives with her class in the spellcraft tower of the Oakhurst School of Magic to teach the bunch of young–and not particularly well-behaved–teenagers about the school’s ancient spellbook. But the book has gone missing from the cabinet!

Only a few people have the key to the tower, and very soon, the town’s mayor will need the book to bless the start of the new council year.

Who has stolen the book?

Is it Barnaby the caretaker, and has he sold it on the black market?

Is it Jasper Bloom, a fellow teacher, and did he want to find a love spell?

Is it the cranky teacher Mr. Stone, who hates the mayor and would gladly make the council’s life difficult?

And what can Veronica do if the truth potion she gives these people only complicates matters, backfires spectacularly and makes them say outrageous and embarrassing things?

The Oakhurst School of Magic is going places. They’re applying for accreditation as an official institute of Pure Magic, and this will attract more students.

But in amongst preparations for the visiting accreditation committee, Mrs. Marsh’s rabbit goes missing and Veronica gets roped into trying to find it.

Why does a wayward rabbit matter?

Well, it’s a magical rabbit, and you can’t have magic running loose in the school grounds if you want to impress the committee.

Scratch that, it’s a clockwork rabbit and it symbolises everything Pure Magic is not, everything Mrs. Marsh and a couple of other teachers stand for. The one rabbit stands for a deep division in the school community.

The school’s reputation, Veronica’s job and the harmony of the Oakhurst village are on the line. How can Veronica make sure no one is harmed, not even a clockwork rabbit?

When Veronica takes her year three students into the forest next to the school to teach them about forest spirits, two students meet an aggressive creature. The apparition is angry about “changes to the forest”.

At the same time, the building of a new wing to the school to house the new Machine Magic department is facing trouble. Building plans are magically altered and materials go missing.

And Veronica, tasked with finding teachers for the new department, finds herself flooded with candidates from all over the magical world.

Are these things related?

Yes, but it will take some unconventional thinking to get to the bottom of it.

Veronica Mayflower is a teacher at the Oakhurst School of Magic. Her students, their parents and fellow teachers are both the cause and solution to her problems.

A collection of three consecutive novellas.

In The Missing Spellbook, an ancient book goes missing from the spellcraft tower.

In The Rabbit In The Hole, Mrs Marsh of the animal house loses a magic rabbit.

In Out Of The Woodworks, magical beings in the forest next to the school behave strangely, and it may be related to building works at the school grounds.