What if Eleanor had ignored the solicitor's letter? What if she hadn't inherited the house? Would Eleanor have ever found out that she was a witch? The house was not the only thing that Eleanor had inherited. There was a gateway to another world at the bottom of her garden. Could life get any stranger? This is Eleanor's life, of course it could Eleanor and James are about to get married and friends and family come to stay. James's spoiled and highly strung sister-in-law vanishes. Somehow she had managed to open another gateway and now she has disappeared. Eleanor finds that she can't pass...

A lot has happened to Eleanor Frost in the last year: she has inherited a house, discovered magic is real and has visited some very strange places, not the least of which was Faerie. Now she and her fiance, James Harrington, were going to have to explain all of this to his brother Edmund. Eleanor and James, having rescued Edmund's pregnant wife Kitty from Faerie, now had to explain how she was carrying not only Edmund's baby but also that of Branchir, King of Faerie... how was that even possible? It had to be magic of course. When Kitty is abducted by Branchir's enemies, Eleanor and James,...

A MATTER OF TIME It is time for Eleanor and James to go home and Joseph, her familiar, comes to see them off. They step through the gate and... Where did they go? Joseph should be able to sense them but there is nothing. Why does he suddenly feel as though something has reached inside his chest and plucked out his heart? The sisters are having no better luck finding them either. There is the distinct possibility that they might be dead but Joseph refuses to believe it. And then Daphne collapses. What is wrong with her and why has she shut Belus out? Tricky stuff, magic...and this has got John...

Hob, King of the Gnomes and Earth Elemental is not himself and his granddaughter Alsea, the dryad is worried. She has not heard from him in a long while and she wants her son Simon, the Forest Mage to investigate. But all I see not well with Simon either. Meanwhile, in the Land of Faerie, the Boroviche travellers have returned home to discover that time has moved on faster than it should have and huge changes have occurred. A new leader has emerged from the Boroviche and he wants Branchir, the Elven King's crown. Changes are afoot.