Lee, Tanith

Feeling neglected because her sorceress mother is enamored with a flamboyant magician and her sister, Emperess Lizra, is infatuated with her own true love, Tanaquil is drawn into another world in which her mirror self is plotting to murder her sister.

While climbing a tree to rescue a kite, eleven-year-old Hope is pulled into the sky, away from the reality of life in London in 1867, and into a world of magic.

Contains three novels by Tanith Lee which revolve around a sixteen-year-old handmaiden who steals a blank diary from her mistress and begins her own journals.

Feeling neglected because her sorceress mother is enamored with a flamboyant magician and her sister, Emperess Lizra, is infatuated with her own true love, Tanaquil is drawn into another world in which her mirror self is plotting to murder her sister.

Artemesia, having escaped the hangman's noose and married her true love, finds life ashore a bit boring after her adventures as a pirate queen, and does not hesitate when the government of England, at war with France and Spain, offers her a ship in exchange for her service in harassing the enemy.

After escaping from finishing school, Artemesia reunites her mother's crew and sets out to sea, where she encounters Golden Girl and fights to be queen pirate.

On the day of her wedding to Argul, Claidi is kidnapped by armed men in a hot-air balloon.

With her talent for mending things, sixteen-year-old Tanaquil reconstructs a unicorn which, brought to life, lures her away from her desert fortress home and her sorceress mother to a land by the sea.

The gorgon--Anna Medea--Meow--The hunting of death: the unicorn-Magritte's secret agent--Money's stagger --Sirriamnis--Because our skins are finer--Quatt-sup--Draco draco--La reine blanche.