vancouver island (b.c.)

"Standing on a bridge over the Koksilah River near their home on Vancouver Island, Frame and her brother Ranger make a shocking discovery, and are convinced they're at the scene of a terrible crime. Suspicions mount when all clues point in the direction of their shadowy and irascible neighbor--The McGuire"--Back cover.

"Seth can't stand it at home anymore, so he escapes to the wild of Vancouver Island. But his best chance of survival turns out to be Brooke, who is running from problems of her own. Two teens in the wilderness--can they survive the challenges of the untamed environment and their own troubled lives?"--Back cover.

Maya and her friends--all of whom have supernatural powers--have been kidnapped after fleeing from a forest fire they suspect was deliberately set, and after a terrifying helicopter crash they find themselves pursued by evil-doers in the Vancouver Island wilderness.

When Ruth finds a piece of debris washed up on a beach on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest she discovers the diary of sixteen-year-old Nao, living in Tokyo, who decides that death is the only escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century.

Hunted by the St. Clouds and a rival Cabal, the race for survival comes to a thrilling conclusion as Maya and her friends search for information about their powers, but Maya is unprepared for the answers that await her.

In 1857, after her uncle evicts thirteen-year-old Tess and her father from their Scotland home and they are forced to immigrate to Vancouver Island, Canada, she forms her own opinions about social and class differences.

Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a link between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and the strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets.

"The race for survival comes to a thrilling conclusion when Maya and her friends--who all have supernatural powers--find help against the Cabals from unexpected places"--Provided by publisher.

Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a link between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and the strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets.