Katie has had her fair share of heartache. The men that come into her life just end up making it more complicated and she is starting to lose her faith in the opposite sex altogether. The only exception is her Grandpa, Edward, whom she has lived with since the age of six after her parents died. He is the constant that makes Katie feel safe and happy and she enjoys the comfortable life they have built together in their large, country house - Sweet Haven. After yet another man turns out to be only after Katie's wealth, she takes herself away to a seaside retreat - intent on relaxing and healing...

Meurig, the fiddler, is a haunted man. Hafren, the evil spirit-woman of the Severn has captured his soul and now possesses the key to his life - a small candle stub. Hafren taunts and torments Meurig but with help from Conor and Sara, he can take back his life from her watery grasp - at the cost of flooding the land.

Jamie was at the library looking for a book that was different, one he could get lost in. But he didn't mean it literally. The Book with his own name in it leads Jamie and his sister Jenny into the Summer Country - a world of magic and danger, where even time behaves strangely; where Fintan's Tower has held its prisoner since the days of Camelot.

Jessa and Thorkil are banished by the evil witch Gudrun to the ice kingdom to the North. Here they will be incarcerated with Gudrun's son Kari; about whom there are the most terrible tales. He is rumoured to be half-man, half-beast and is a figure of dread. After an endless journey, Thorkil and Jessa arrive and, at last meet Kari.