Ibbotson, Eva

Princess Theresa-Maria of Pfaffenstein is content to work unrecognized as a wardrobe mistress for the Viennese opera company until the handsome English millionaire Guy Farne arrives and makes Tessa wonder if there may be more to life than just music.

Anna, a young Russian countess forced to flee to England with her governess during the Russian Revolution, conceals her past in order to gain a much-needed job as a maid in the Westerholme household, where the growing attraction between her and Rupert, the handsome Earl of Westerholme, makes it difficult for her to keep her secret, and endangers his plans to marry for money.

Nineteen-year-old Harriet Morton's life is forever changed when a Russian ballet master invites her to dance in a production of "Swan Lake", and, defying her parents' wishes, Harriet travels to the Amazon with the dance company and begins an affair with a mysterious British exile.

It is pre-World War II and Ruth Beger falls in love with Heini Radek, a young prodigy, who is studying piano at the Conservatoire in Vienna. When Hitler's troops invade Austria, Ruth has the opportunity to escape to England, but at the price of betraying her love to Heini and marrying someone else.

Deciding that he must sire a child to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting the Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a competition among the witches of Todcaster, one of whom will marry him.

During a summer at their great-uncle and aunt's castle in northern England, eleven-year-old Madlyn and her younger brother, Rollo, attempt, with the help of several ghosts, to save the rare cattle that live on the grounds.

Deciding that he must sire a child to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting the Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a competition among the witches of Todcaster, one of whom will marry him.

When twelve-year-old Alex's Scottish castle of Carra is sold, dismantled, and moved to Texas, the ghosts that raised him from a child have difficulty relocating.