Young servant Lara embarks on a daring plan to find her one true love. She steals one hundred silver schlips from her master to buy a magical faerie that will glow when her one true love is near. In order to pay back the debt, she turns her master's empty house into a gambling den.It's all going so fabulously well, until her master's youngest son, Cezar, turns up.Winter, 1812. Napoleon is marching through northern Brugel, on his way to Moscow.Most sensible people have fled south. Some folks have to stay behind in the villages and look after the animals This is where we find our heroine, young Lara, who yearns for her one true love to sweep her off her feet.Lara undertakes a daring endeavour. She steals one hundred silver schlips from her master to buy a magical faerie that will glow when her one true love is near. In order to pay back the debt, she turns her master's empty house into a gambling den.It's all going so fabulously well, until her master's youngest son, Cezar, turns up.

The true story of Spider-Ella, a Christmas fairytale as you've never read it before.Once upon a time, Wilona d'Arella was a lowly Brugelish farm girl who loved growing apples. She also loved spiders (it's going to be OK) because spiders eat the bugs that damage the apples.She met a young song-of-a-Duke, who hated spiders. Clearly they were not going to get along.Alas, fate brought them together again on the night of the Christmas Ball, where Wilona's beautiful sparkling dress helped protect the Grand Duchy of Brugel against marauding invaders.It's the enduring and endearing Cinderella fairy tale as you never read it before.

A brilliantly witty fairy tale with a furry tail ending!One girl. One boy. One spell to be broken.Ondine de Groot is a normal fifteen-year-old who lives with her family in the European country of Brugel. She has a pet ferret called Shambles. But Shambles is no ordinary ferret. . . He's Hamish McPhee, a boy cursed by a witch. A witch who happens to be related to Ondine.When Shambles turns back into Hamish temporarily, Ondine knows that she has to help him break the spell. He is the most gorgeous boy she has ever met and her one true love! He just can't remain a ferret forever. Can he?

The outlaw of folklore as you've never seen her before.Headstrong peasant Robyn yearns for adventure. Her father has joined The Crusades and charged off with most of the Loxley Village men under King Richard's banner. Why couldn't he take her along too?Robyn's best friend Marion has found himself stuck in Loxley as well, burdened with the job of village blacksmith. He'd love to join the crusades with his brothers and father too.When tax collectors raid her village, Robyn can't stand by and watch them take everything. She smuggles a bag of grain so they have something to eat through the winter. Surviving comes naturally to Robyn. Horse riding, not so much. She never meant to steal the horse, but the only way she could get it to movewas to jump on its back. Then the thing went and took off, taking her with it.Attempts to set things right only make things worse as Robyn and Marion get into deeper and deeper trouble, collecting friends and enemies along the way.Campaign out in the...

Publicity-shy teenager Morgan Parker would love a day free from scandal, but her tabloid-fodder family can't help making idiots of themselves in public.So when a confused - and a little bit gorgeous - ghost by the name of George Sebastian Wallace shows up in her room, Morgan welcomes the distraction from the chaos of her real life.As Morgan gets to know George, she helps him unravel his family's secrets.A research trip to the cemetery with George turns into a social media sensation as the paparazzi have a field day capturing Morgan apparently talking to herself.The rest of the world can't see George, only Morgan can. Suddenly social media can't get enough of Morgan and her 'imaginary friend'.Now Morgan's the one creating gossip and she hasn't a clue how to stop it.

One boy, one girl, one plot to be foiled!Hamish the gorgeous man (and part-time ferret) has a new job with the Duke as a spy in his Autumn Palace. So Ondine goes with him. She imagines a hugely romantic escapade together that involves lots of kissing.What she hadn't imagined was having to do endless laundry, go to school and keep Hamish the man a secret. All the while trying to find out who is plotting to kill the Duke.And if that weren't bad enough, it seems that Hamish is more interested in getting the Duke's attention than hers. Plus he's always in ferret form.Things can't go on like this! Can Ondine foil the would-be assassin, save the Duke and get her man back in gorgeous human form?It's going to take a little bit of magic, a lot of stolen kisses and some ferreting around...

At last, all four books in the internationally acclaimed Ondine series are here in one ebook collection. Join Ondine and her ferret Shambles (who is really Hamish, a man trapped in a witch's spell) as they navigate the crazy royal intrigues of Brugel, a country in Eastern Europe which has still not won the Eurovision Song Contest. There'll be food, music, captures, escapes, mayhem, magic and general craziness. Plus true love.