Cousins visiting proud, unfriendly Great-aunt Jane in her spooky Victorian house come upon a fifty-year-old mystery which is frightening in its investigation and which reveals a tragic story in Jane's past.
Daisy feels that her vacation in Scotland is being ruined by her forced companionship with the strange girl Clementina, until mysterious events link her to another Clementina two centuries ago.
Fifteen-year old Fanny and her step-sister are drawn into mysterious occurences around their home in Scotland which seem to be connected to the unexplained disappearance of a young man in 1914.
Kit's discovery of a "secret" Japanese garden is the beginning of a healing process as her family disintegrates and new friendships add new, enriching dimensions to her life.
Through caring for a stray fox cub, a ten-year-old gradually accepts the fact that, though he too has been abandoned, he does have a place in his foster family.
Finding an old family Bible behind a secret door in her house leads Anne on a quest to solve the mystery surrounding the death in 1726 of a young Scottish woman accused of witchcraft.
Eleven-year-old Jill, estranged from her older brother since their parents' divorce, finds their relationship renewed when she shares a strange adventure with him back in sixteenth-century Scotland.
Although he is afraid of Andrew Aldie, twelve-year-old Chris Cooper agrees to help his friend Finn Lochlan look for a way to stop Andrew's father from opening a gravel pit near their Scottish village.
A boy's opportunity to visit a remote Scottish island, romanticized--he discovers the hard way--by his grandfather, helps him to mend his relationship with his "failure" father and look to the future.
