Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.
Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold, accompanying his eccentric grandmother, a writer, on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
Eliza Sommers, a Chilean orphan raised in a victorian home, follows her lover to California during the dangerous Gold Rush of 1849 and discovers a new life of freedom.
Eliza Sommers, left alone and pregnant in Chile when her lover Joaquin runs off to California during the Gold Rush, decides to follow him only to become entranced with her new life of freedom and independence.