Forbidden Magic. Rebellious Prince Callandryll secretly accepts a charge from a foreign ambassador to embark on a quest for an ancient book of magic. Callandryll's employer intends to conquer the world or destroy it.

Present Tense. In the midst of the horror of the first World War, a stranger falls from nowhere into the mud and death of the Flanders battlefield bruised, babbling, and stark naked with a remarkable story to tell. Wrongly accused murderer Edward Exeter has reappeared on this Earth bearing scars and secrets. From somewhere he calls next door--a place old godly intrigues and an ancient prophecy that he wants no part of. But powerful forces on both sides of a mystical border have other plans...

Talut, a powerful bear of a man with bright red hair, a booming laugh, and a gentle heart, and his tall, dark-haired sister, Tulie, are the leaders of the Lion Camp of the Mamutoi. It is here that Ayla finds her first women friends, but some among the Mamutoi dislike Ayla because she was raised by “flatheads,” their name for the people of the Clan. Ayla is haunted by her memories of the Clan because Rydag, a child of mixed parentage living with the Mamutoi, bears so strong a resemblance to her...

Jaric inherits his father's powers, and as he struggles to successfully assume them, mankind's enemies are growing strong.

Alex doesn't know his birthday because he was found abandoned next to Cleopatra's Needle, so instead of a birthday he celebrates his finding.