With her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant blackmailing her into marriage, seventeen-year-old Ai Ling becomes aware of a strange power within her as she goes in search of her parent.
Bound to keep a promise to her dead uncle, Is travels to the mysterious north country to find two missing boys–one of them a prince–and to discover why so many children in London are disappearing.
When her beloved older sister Kate begins to act strangely and then disappears, twelve-year-old Mini discovers a shocking family secret while trying to find her.
When fifteen-year-old Max Gordon’s environmentalist-adventurer father goes missing while working in Namibia and Max becomes the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, he decides he must follow his father to Africa and find him before they both are killed.