Sixteen-year-old Princess Talia persuades Jack, the modern-day American who kissed her awake after a three-hundred-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home, where she hopes to win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away.
When witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest of the elemental spirit of Winter, she requires the help of the six-inch-high, sword-wielding, sheep-stealing Wee Free Men to put the seasons aright.
A collection poems on supernatural topics, drawn from over the course of three thousand years, including selections by Homer, Longfellow, Shelley, Rossetti, and many others.
Fern Capel, relieved to be back from the ghostly Otherworld, is forced to fight for her life again when the evil witch-queen Morgus enters modern-day England in search of revenge and ready to plant an offshoot of the deadly Eternal Tree.
Grace, alerted to the fact that there is trouble in the Five Kingdoms, joins with her odd assortment of friends in an effort to foil the evil plans of Truda Hangnail, a green-tongued witch who has shrunk all the good witches of Wadington to the size of rats.
On the eve of her twelfth birthday, Beatrice Baily is surprised to find that the decision about her classification as a witch has not been made and that she must first perform a task involving the evil Dally Rumpe.