The town of Pembrose in Cornwall, where Minerva, Ravi, and Thomasina live, is surrounded by places in the legends of King Arthur (which attract tourists), so when a famous archeologist arrives to debunk the legends, the three friends put aside the mystery of Minerva's identity and set out to prove that there really is magic in this place.

Jani, the strange and lovely heroine, has been brought up in a remote region of the Himalayas in Tibet by a runaway English soldier. Both Jani's past and that of her soldier protector are shrouded in a mystery that grows ever deeper for Jani when the foreign demon on a black horse comes from the south to take her away to a new and frightening world--a London orphanage. Later, when she moves on and finds the Woman in Red, Jani becomes one of the family in a Hampshire household. And it is here tha

Roddy and Nick, two teenagers with magical powers they are just learning to use, find that they must work together to save Roddy's home world of Blest from destruction by power-hungry wizards.