Sixteen-year-old Rebecca moves with her father from London to a small, seaside village, where she spends the summer exploring the village's sinister history with a new friend.
In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village where they were born.
When the twelve-year war between the Uplanders and Downlanders is over and Cam returns home to his village, questions dog him, from how he lost an arm to why he was the only one of his fellow soldiers to survive, such that he must leave until his own suspicions are resolved.
Andrew Hope inherits a house in an English village from his late grandfather and things are going well until orphan Aidan shows up, trailing a host of magical townsfolk and interlopers in his wake.
Presents a brief overview of Europe in the Middle Ages, and looks at the lives and daily activities of different classes of medieval people, including landholders, peasants, the wealthy, and monks and nuns.
Sixteen-year-old Lexi, who lives on an enchanted moor at the edge of the village of Near, must solve the mystery when, the day after a mysterious boy appears in town, children start disappearing.
A newly arrived family finds enchantment in a small village when their housekeeper, a mysterious girl from the mountains, introduces them to the world of fairies.
Seventeen-year-old Noah York tries to adjust to life in a new town, but as he helps his mother renovate their home, he finds himself becoming immersed in the past of a mysterious woman who disappeared decades earlier.
The population of a small, isolated countryside village believe that their alliance with the mysterious creatures that inhabit the forest around them is coming to an end.
The mysterious Vianne and her child arrive in an old-fashioned French town at the beginning of Lent and open a chocolate shop. Her chocolates seem to have a strong effect on the startled, puritanical villagers, who abandon themselves to temptation and happiness.
