"Can anyone escape fate? That's what Mac and her fellow newspaper delivery girls must discover as they travel from the year 2000 to the distant and dangerous future edition of Cleveland, Ohio. Plus, the secret truth behind the mysterious 'Grand Father' who's been pursuing the girls across time is finally revealed"--Back cover.
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid, " a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
While Pendragon is trapped on Ibara, Alder returns to Denduron and reluctantly goes into battle again, and other Travelers face obstacles of various sorts, Saint Dane gains the power he seeks on Second Earth and makes his push to destroy and rebuild Halla.
"Allied with the native elves, samurai warrior Shimazu Toyohisa forges a daring plan: form an alliance between elves and dwarves, the elves' generational enemies!"--Back cover.
"Heroes abducted from Earth's history--"Drifters"-- take sides in a war for a mystical world. Samurai warrior Shimazu Toyohisa and his forces take control of the Orte Empire's capital only to discover that the Black King has sent his army of monsters to lay waste to the capital... and to Toyohisa's Drifters!"--Back cover.
In the final battle over control of Japan in AD 1600, Shimazu Toyohisa is pulled into another world filled with elves, dragons, and other warrior "Drifters," who represent the best samurai from Japan's warring provinces.
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
