When Meeral left her small village to go to Pactyl, she wanted to escape her mother's scandalous past and find work. She tried to be anonymous and fit in, but that only worked until war came. Meeral found herself at odds with the defenders of Pactyl because her magical skill of enhancing was more powerful than their army. She learned that she could not escape her mother's past, but she could make a place for herself and find love.

John woke up in the hospital with amnesia, but others knew who he was. He had an identity, including a job and an apartment. But his interactions with the people who knew him didn't seem right. He wondered why he didn't have a relationship with his attractive colleague Cara, since they both obviously wanted one. The life they told him he lived didn't seem like the life he thought would be natural for him. Everyone told him that Arthur was his best friend, but Arthur was out of the country. He received a phone message from Arthur that made him more curious about his lost past. The message came...

Heleen's parents died when a fire burned their home, but Merko, a handsome stranger, pulled her from the burning building. Heleen accepts Merko's offer of a job, giving her the chance to see more of the world, only to discover he is really offering a kind of captivity and the risk of losing her ability to enhance. In the course of her adventures, Heleen meets people who worship other gods and have magical abilities she hasn't encountered before. She learns that when every choice is bad, she still has to choose, and when others depend on the choices she makes, it can be impossible to avoid...

When Bengt pushes Margit and her daughter Ivy out of the way of an oncoming car, he doesn't realize it will embroil him in a secret worth killing for. Bengt doesn't need any more secrets, deadly or not, because he has one of his own. He and Tian are a dual, two merged people. They already risk kidnapping by those who covet Tian's magical ability to cure. They're trying to find a way to live ordinary lives in the modern world, but "The Secret of Santua" will lead them to a few vampires, a were-chimpanzee, and someone who is trying to kill Ivy.

Melal simply seeks to escape the maltreatment of enhancers prevalent in her town, but soon finds herself protecting deluded girls who believe that it's a good idea to go to war to end religious persecution. Now, Melal's magical ability to enhance, a gift bestowed by her god, has led her to a mission for another deity. Fighting for a god not her own, alongside an attractive stranger, Melal's success could save more than the handful of girls she set out to protect. The god who commands Melal and this stranger has promised a reward if they succeed, but no god had promised either of them they'll...