When she opened the music box, Martina never imagined it would lead her on a wild adventure to save a world that she never knew existed-a world that had been secretly watching hers for thousands of years.

As apocalyptic flooding becomes a global concern, twelve-year-old Martina mourns the loss of the grandfatherly previous owner of her familys ice cream shop. He left her an intricate music box that is an exact replica of the shop, which leads her and friends Heath and London through the ice cream machine and into Sheardland: an ancient sanctuary within the Earth where magical races escape...

Martina, Heath, and London must figure out how they are connected to a greater mystery in time to prevent Sheardland from completely falling under the carousel's spell in the second installment of the Martina Mackenzie series.

An Elfin queen's curse sears through the ages as the secret society that threatens Sheardland's existence burns to find out what else lies in her tomb. By the end of the tale, Rhihalven, Elves, Fairies, and humans have all become involved as they grapple for control of a key, long-forgotten wisdom, and an ancient secret. With the discovery of Mr. Willoughby's diary in this third book of the Martina Mackenzie series, the trio sets off on yet another wild adventure in Sheardland. To find the missing earth key, Martina, Heath, and London disguise themselves as Elfin servants at Womeldorff...

A cursed dagger. A shipwrecked crew. A mysterious, glowing island. Shards of the tale appear in an ancient book under the name of a famous Rhihalven storyteller, and Martina, Heath, and London take it as a call to return to Sheardland. Soon, these covert ambassadors from the human race discover something new. The blade is shrouded in enchantment-and imbibed with a curse. Someday it will destroy something essential to Sheardland's existence, deep within the Earth. The blade's power is coveted by many. But just who in Sheardland knows about the blade and what it was created to do? Martina and...

Zhanna-a grammarian, compulsive spellchecker, and young copy editor-simmers when her expert redlines are questioned. As her agitation grows, she begins making editorial corrections outside the publishing house. On a lunch break, she confronts the cashier about quotation marks indicating "free" coffee and finally abolishes them from the chalkboard herself. She broods about careless writing and the death of language. Sometimes she feels like a dangling modifier. Clearly, she needs a break. Confessions of the Editor Brigand chronicles Zhanna's obsession. For six weeks, she travels from one town...