While spending her Easter vacation in Edinburgh, eighteen-year-old Isobel befriends an American girl and through her is drawn into a dangerous adventure involving foreign spies and murder.
Exploring their new country home, Clare and Richard suddenly find themselves seventy years in the past, a visit that changes the course of many lives, including their own.
Eighteen-year-old Marissa visits her orphaned friend Sabrina at Darkling Farm, and becomes involved in mysteries surrounding an ancient Midlands custom known as the Deer Darkling Horn Dance.
Unsure whether they will like their new home in Cheshire, three children soon become involved with a visually handicapped schoolmate and the restoration of a British manor house.