In Stoneygate they play a game called death. But perhaps it isn't just a game. The others may be pretending, but Kit Watson slips into darkness, a nothingness that is real enough. Death is all around him: the recent loss of his grandmother, the slow fading away of his grandfather, and the deaths of countless children in the coal mines of Stoneygate long ago. Kit is haunted by many ghosts, and he is not the only one... By the author of Skellig.

The Morgans are uprooted from their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts when their father accepts a post at the University of Wales. Becky and Jen make an effort to fit in, but Peter is determined to hate the place and simmers with resentment against his father. The country will not be so easily dismissed. Wales is a land alive with stories and old magic. When Peter finds an ancient object belonging to the legendary Taliesin, the past truly comes alive as Peter witnesses harrowing scenes from the life of the sixth-century bard. As he is drawn more deeply into the past, Peter becomes ever more distant from his father. Unless Jen and Becky can stop it, the family will fall apart.

A piece of land - Lonny LaFreniere loves it and his stepfather wants him to have it, but Lonny is wracked with guilt and cannot accept it. Instead, the land goes to Alexandra Sinclair, a city girl with no connection to the place - or so it seems. The land has a past. It does not forget. It calls to Lonny and Alex both, if they are willing to hear.

While on a school field trip, Stephen Messenger discovers a collection of relics from a shipwreck long ago: an iron pot, a disintegrating diary, a mummified human hand, and something else... These "strange objects" are the clues to an ancient and grisly mystery. Stephen is both horrified and fascinated when he begins to have visions of the past, becoming an eyewitness to the terrible events recounted in the diary. But the past starts to become more real than the present and Stephen's own darkness begins to take over...

Two girls, two stories - four million years apart. Vinny's father is an archaeologist on a dig, the site of an ancient community. Li is a member of that community, in a time when people still lived largely in the ocean. Both girls are thinkers, people who can change their worlds, and though they never know one another, their stories are intimately connected.

The tiny hamlet of Fours Crossing, New Hampshire seems to be locked in endless winter. Melissa, new in town and still grieving after her mother's death, finds nothing sinister in the freakish weather. Her friend Jed is not so certain. The answer may be buried in the town's past, if only they can find it. Don't miss the sequels: Watersmeet and The Door Between.

Anna Mae Needcliff has just found a body. The man's corpse has been preserved in a Tibetan glacier for nine thousand years. Anna Mae and her anthropologist father begin to speculate about the iceman's life, and death. There is someone about who could tell them the real story - a young ghost who knew the iceman personally - if only they would listen to him... By the author of Maphead.

Laney McIntyre and Tom Walsh have each discovered treasure sunk in the bog: two native "false face" masks. The masks are not merely valuable artifacts but powerful objects steeped in ancient magic. Part native himself, Tom recognizes the mask he finds for the dangerous thing it is and will not claim it. Laney is not so wise. Something terrible has awakened, something evil. Can it be stopped?

Nick and Marty are both running away - he from the tragedy of his brother's death, she from failure and an empty future. They meet on the California coast. It is a place of discoveries. Nick realizes that the "conservation project" on which he is working is merely a front for an illicit treasure hunt on a sunken wreck. Marty finds she can communicate with whales. The currents of past, present and future run dangerously together in the ocean tides. Nick and Marty are soon caught up in them, trying to keep their heads above water. By the author of Come Like Shadows.

Coyote Runs is a young Apache, about to take part in his first raid, the event that will make him a man. Over one hundred years later, Brennan Cole is camping in Dog Canyon when he finds a skull marked by a bullet hole. Fascinated, even obsessed by his find, Brennan discovers the skull belonged to an Apache boy killed by soldiers in 1864. He must return the skull to a fitting resting place, for it seems neither he nor Coyote Runs will find peace until he does.

Recovering from a long illness in a small country village, Tim finds a series of rough drawings hidden in an old tin. Strangely, the initials on the drawings are his own. Shortly afterwards, his eye is caught by the same initials on a headstone in the cemetery. Whoever he was, "T.R.I." died the day after the drawings were made in 1910. Intrigued, Tim begins to investigate. Echoes of the past still linger, traces of a tragedy that may not be so distant as it seems.

The storm came out of nowhere. John Webster and his motorbike find shelter just in time - in an ancient barn with strange symbols on the door. "Lady Chance" is calling John's name. Or is it someone else? Should he answer? A gripping tale of wickedness and witchcraft by a master of suspense.