Tokoyo, a skilled diver, is devoted to her father who has been banished by the emperor. She goes in search of him and in the process kills a sea dragon, breaking an evil spell. Tokoyo and her father are reunited and return to their village. Themes: braver

Nell Martin is moving again, this time to the Winslow Grand Hotel, built in 1878. As Nell is settling in, strange things begin to happen. Doors lock of their own accord, writing appears on bathroom walls, and most horrifying of all, visions of a dead boy permeate her waking life. Thinking it's her mind playing tricks on her, she soon finds the past and present colliding as she learns horrific details of a murder which took place at the hotel in 1907...

In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.

At Baskerville Hall on the grim moors of Devonshire, a legendary curse has apparently claimed one more victim. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead. There are no signs of violence, but his face is hideously distorted with terror. Has the spectral destroyer struck again? More important, is Sir Henry Baskerville, younger heir to the estate, now in danger? Enter Sherlock Holmes, summoned to protect Sir Henry. As Holmes and Watson begin to investigate,...

Layla Birdsong has been reincarnated just as the world is coming to an end: a meteor called Firewalker is on a collision course with earth. She will lead what's left of the Native American race through a portal-- back to their beginning. Doing so will change the past-- and the future. But will Firewalker come before all of her people are through the portal?

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnate is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

In the kingdom of Amaranyllis, only the princesses have the power to control the errant magic constantly threatening to cross over from the boundary of fairie. But the princess is lost; hidden from a curse with the desperate hope that she will become the salvation of their kingdom. She cannot, however, elude her destiny. Aribella must take her rightful place and contend with the dangers hidden in royal life. Beyond the unpredictable fairie storms...

Lowly court painter Gavril Nagarian learns that he is the rightful heir to the harsh arctic kingdom of Azhkendir, that he possesses formidable powers that compromise his humanity, and that he is being targeted by bitter rivals who would prevent him from reuniting the kingdom.

When penniless Michael Rogers discovers the beautiful house at Gypsyś Acre and then meets the heiress Ellie, it seems that all his dreams have come true at once. But he ignores an old womanś warning of an ancient curse, and evil begins to stir in paradise. As Michael soon learns: Gypsyś Acre is the place where fatal "accidents" happens.