Although Abbie lives in New York, far from what are to become the bloody battlegrounds of the South, she cannot stop thinking about the impending Civil War. Her father is a Yankee while her mother is from Charleston, South Carolina.
Two girls, each a "problem" to her family, arrive in Istanbul where they are soon involved with gypsy fortune tellers and the loss of a valuable horn-shaped pin.
Benita travels with her father to South Africa. She stays at her aunt's Cape Town house complete with trap doors, castle turrets, and unfolding mysteries. She becomes involved in a sinister adventure.
Young girl returns to her ancestral mansion in New Hampshire, meets her eccentric relatives, and is determined to uncover the stagnant evil within the estate.
Hallie Knight is invited to Topsail Island by the ailing Nicholas Trench who wants her to try and find out what happened to his grandaughter Susan, a dear college friend of Hallie's who disappeared two years earlier, but there are people who are not pleased to have Hallie around and soon she begins to fear her own life is in danger.
Courtney Marsh searches for her true identity after the death of her adoptive parents. The only clue she has is a golden unicorn given to her at birth by her biological parents. In her search scandalous secrets, romance, and murder must be faced before she reaches her goal.
