Golding, Julia

Connie and Col band together to save the world for all creatures--including the mythical ones of which few humans are aware--from the shape-shifter Kullervo's army and, along the way, Connie finds herself transformed in an amazing way.

Upon moving to her aunt's seaside home in the British Isles, Connie becomes part of a secret society that shelters mythical creatures, and must use her ability to communicate with these beings to protect them from evil and the incursions of humans.

Freydis joins her father, a Viking leader, on a quest to find her brother who had been taken prisoner after a raid by marauders. Freydis draws close to her slave and protector Enno, but they find that friendship, family, and loyalty are tested to the limit when the battle begins.

Rain, a stained-glass designer despite laws banning women from that craft, seizes the opportunity to secretly work as an artist in a foreign land but struggles to survive amidst the country's chaos. Then she meets Peri, a falconer considered untouchable, and the two join forces and hope their love will keep them safe from prejudices and looming disaster.

When Mel Foster accidentally revives a giantess from inside a block of ice, he thinks his goose is cooked. But Eve is no Monster. She doesn't want to eat Mel-she wants to protect him. And he's going to need all the help he can get. Queen Victoria's butler is hatching a plan that could Destroy the British Empire ... and only Mel has the power to stop him.

When Tashi, the rigidly formal sixteen-year-old Fourth Crown Princess of the Blue Crescent Islands, reluctantly weds roguish eighteen-year-old Prince Ramil of Gerfal, their religious, cultural, and personal differences threaten to end their political alliance and put both countries at the mercy of a fearsome warlord.

Orphan Catherine "Cat" Royal, living at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, tries to find the "diamond" supposedly hidden in the theater, which unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist, and involves her in the street gangs of Covent Garden and the world of nobility.

When pirates raid a village in ninth-century Norway, eighteen-year-old Toki is captured as a prize, while Freydis, his younger sister, is taken to a friendly village where she and her African slave, Enno, learn that their fates are linked by prophecy.

Mallins Wood is home to the last surviving gorgon, and Col's mother, the gorgon's supernatural Companion, is determined to save it from encroaching development--even to the point of endangering Col and his best friend Connie, the most powerful Companion alive.

Connie and Col band together to save the world for all creatures--including the mythical ones of which few humans are aware--from the shape-shifter Kullervo's army and, along the way, Connie finds herself transformed in an amazing way.