A haunted house. A cold case. A new cop in town.Did Edna Crayborne really see a woman getting strangled in the ground floor window of the old Bailey house?Rosie Ryan isn't sure. As a journalist with the Cape Carson Gazette, Rosie's always on the lookout for a big news story. And the Bailey house does have a reputation as the most haunted house in town. After all, it's the place where the infamous Bailey killings happened all those years ago.Of course, that's old histor...

Everybody at Seiyo Elementary thinks that stylish and super cool Amu has it all: But nobody knows the real Amu, a shy girl who wishes she had the courage to truly be herself. Changing Amu's life is going to take more than wishes and dreamsit's going to take a little magic! One morning, Amu finds a surprise in her bed: three strange little eggs. Each egg contains a Guardian Character, an angellike being who can give her the power to be someone new. With the help of her Guardian Characters, ...

BETRAYAL Amu has three Guardian Characters who represent different sides of her ideal selfand a fourth who has gone over to work for the evil Easter Corporation! Amu must now face her renegade character while the Guardians try to foil Easter's sinister new schemeall while dealing with a surprise traitor in their midst! This volume of Shugo Chara! includes special extras after the story!

A UFO conference. A cold case. A missing man.Rosie Ryan faces her toughest challenge ever when she's asked to investigate the death of Hailey Lawrence. The writer was on the verge of international fame with her first novel. Did her death really an accident? Or was she murdered by a jealous rival?At the same time, Rosie has to deal with the annual Australian Flying Saucer Association conference. It's being held in Cape Carson for the first time, and she's been asked to assist....

Sugar and spice, and everything nice-that may be what girls are made of, but Amu Hinamori is so much cooler, especially now that she's left behind her days at Seiyo Elementary and became a middle schooler! After transferring to Arcana Academy on a special assignment, her role as the Joker Guardian is to intervene in a crisis that is causing students to lose hope and confidence in themselves. But she has another, more important secret mission: to solve the mystery of the all-powerful, myste...

Amu has three Guardian Characters, reflections of her true self. But now a fourth egg has shown up at the start of a new school year. Everything has gone wrong, and Amu has no idea who she truly wants to be. Meanwhile, her rival Utau has rejected one of her own Guardian Characters. Is it time for the two to trade Guardians? Is that even possible? This volume of Shugo Chara! includes special extras after the story!

Amu and her Guardian Characters have found a home at an elite school. But now two new Guardians have been chosen, and each has a secret. One is more complex than Amu thought, and the other may be out to betray the Guardians to the evil Easter Corporation! This volume of Shugo Chara! includes special extras after the story!

Amu's Guardian Characters have been stolen by her teacher, a bitter man whose dreams died when his own egg was smashed. When Amu goes to reclaim her Characters, the School Guardians are there to help. But can they get Amu's eggs back and put the evil teacher's egg together again? This volume of Shugo Chara! includes special extras after the story!

Amu is a girl on a secret mission at Arcana Academy. During her pursuit of the X Eggs, the Humpty Lock changes shape, and Amu's Character Transformation becomes more powerful. While new mysteries continue to emerge, the phantom thief Mirage Lynx steals one of the Arcana Jewels from Heart Dorm! Amu faces a challenge, but she is not alone-help is on the way from familiar friends…

When he returns home after fighting in the English Civil War, Fenlander Tom Swainson is full of hope for a New Age of equality where the rights of commoners will be protected, as promised by his old commander, Oliver Cromwell. But although the hamlet where he lives was untouched by the fighting, he finds that much has changed during his absence. His wife is with child by his friend, Matthew Hobday, and his livelihood is threatened by the 'Venturers', who wish to enclose and drain the Fens....

When the narrator's abusive father sells her to a mysterious stranger, a new exciting world opens. Her new master, Reynauld Sely, is a man of many talents: alchemist, historian, possessor of arcane secrets, and member of a Guild whose quest is the pursuit of Truth. He is eager to share his knowledge and she is willing to learn. Yet this is a time in which the boundaries between science and magic are poorly defined and both may be interpreted as witchcraft . . .Set in the Fens durin...

‘Out of field, out of fen, out of forest we roseputting fear behind us. Foe fled before us:hard-handed death-dealers, wolf-howling warriors,fierce in fealty; our swords glittered in the sunlight . . . .’Edward the Confessor is dead, England is at peace and Hereward, son of Eorl Leofric, returns from exile to his ancestral lands. But peace is short-lived and when Norman invaders murder his foster-brother,...