Although she lives an unconventional lifestyle with her mentally disabled mother and their doting neighbor, Bernadette, Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. When a mysterious word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi's thirst for the truth leads her on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.
Conn seharusnya mati pada saat dia mencopet Locus Magicalicus Never, sebongkah batu yang digunakan untuk memfokuskan dan menghasilkan sihir. Tapi untuk beberapa alasan, dia tidak mati! Karena penasaran Nevery mengangkat Conn menjadi murid sihirnya. Syaratnya,bocah itu harus bisa menemukan Locus Magicalicusnya sendiri dalam waktu tiga puluh hari. Sanggupkah Conn memenuhi syarat itu?
Day 264: It's morning. Soft gray light slips over the tall redbrick wall. It stretches across the exercise yard and reaches through the high, barred windows. In a cell on the ground floor, the light shifts dark shapes into a small stool, a scrawny table, and a bed made of wooden boards with no mattress or blanket. On that bed, a thin, huddled figure, Helmuth, a boy of seventeen, lies awake. Shi…
The blacksmith would marry her. The woodcutter would run away with her. The werewolf would turn her into one of its own. Valerie's sister was beautiful, kind, and sweet. Now she is dead. Henry, the handsome son of the blacksmith, tries to console Valerie, but her wild heart beats fast for another: the outcast woodcutter, Peter, who offers Valerie another life far from home. After her si…