northumberland (england)

"Kielder Water is a wild and beautiful place, rich in folk music and legend. Years ago, before a great dam was built to fill the valley with water, there were farms and homesteads in that valley and musicians who livened their rooms with song. After the village was abandoned and before the waters rushed in, a father and daughter returned there. The girl began to play her fiddle, bringing her tune to one empty house after another--for this was the last time that music would be heard in that place"--Amazon.

Led to an abandoned baby a raven, fourteen-year-old Liam seems fated to meet two foster children who have experienced the world's violence in very different ways as he struggles to understand war, family problems, and friends who grow apart.

In late eighteenth-century Northumberland, England, sixteen-year-old Jessamine Luxton and the mysterious Weed uncover the horrible secrets of poisons growing in Thomas Luxton's apothecary garden.

In late eighteenth-century Northumberland, England, sixteen-year-old Jessamine Luxton is so desperate to find Weed, who her father says deserted her when she was at death's door, that she asks for help from the evil Oleander.

Liam meets Oliver, a foster son from Liberia who claims to be a refugee from the war, and becomes involved in Oliver's dark past when he runs away from his foster home to prevent being sent back to a sure death in Liberia.

Liam meets Oliver, a foster son from Liberia who claims to be a refugee from the war, and becomes involved in Oliver's dark past when he runs away from his foster home to prevent being sent back to a sure death in Liberia.

In late eighteenth-century Northumberland, England, sixteen-year-old Jessamine Luxton and the mysterious Weed uncover the horrible secrets of poisons growing in Thomas Luxton's apothecary garden.